First City Market

Market Street was part of a town drawn before it was built. After the Shreve Town Company formed in May 1836, Louisville surveyor E. D. Hobbs drew a plan eight streets wide, from Cross Bayou to Silver Lake, and eight deep, from the Red River to the bottomland, on a ridge that stayed dry. The Texas Trail ran through it. The plaque's claim that electric streetcars started at this corner on October 4, 1890 sits beside a local television history that finds mule cars running for decades and some lines electrified by 1893.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — steps away
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.5 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 0.6 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 3.2 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• Cane & Bennett's Trading Post — steps away
• Shreve Memorial Library — steps away
• Selber Bros — 0.3 mi
• Henry Watkins Allen / Battery 10 — 0.3 mi