Caddo  Parish French: Paroisse de Caddo Caddo Parish was created on January 18, 1838. The name of Caddo was suggested by legislation member W. H. Sparke, and refers to the Caddo Indians. The Caddo Indians had ceded 1,000,000 acres to the government in 1835, opening up the land for settlement.The parish seat of Caddo is Shreveport, which was founded on  February 4, 1839  by Shreve Town Company. The city is named for Captain Henry Shreve, who opened the Red River to navigation. The Company incorporated Shreveport on March 20, 1839.Caddo Parish’s  first seat was in the Wallace family home on the south shore of Wallace Lake but was later moved to Shreveport. Originally Caddo Parish was framed by the Arkansas line at the north and the Red River at the east, but it extended farther south than it does today. TREATY WITH THE CADDO, 1835. July 1, 1836. 7stat. 470 - Articles of a treaty made at the Agency-house in the Caddo nation and Proclamation. Feb. State of Louisiana, on the first day of July in the year of our Lord 2l 1836 one thousand eight hundred und thirty five, between Jehiel Brooks, Commissioner on the part of the united States, and the Chiefs, head men, and Warriors of the Caddo nation of Indians. to the ARTICLE I. The chiefs, head men, and warriors of the said nationagree to cede and relinquish to the United States all their land contained in the following boundaries: to-wit —  Bounded on the west by the north and south line which separates the said United States from the Republic of Mexico, between the Sabine and Red rivers wheresoever the same shall be defined and acknowledged to be by the two governments. Cities and Towns Belcher Blanchard Gilliam Greenwood Hosston Ida Mooringsport Oil City Rodessa Shreveport Vivian Adjacent counties and parishes Miller Co, Ark (north) Lafayette Co, Ark (northeast) Bossier Parish (east) Red River Parish (southeast) De Soto Parish (south) Panola Co, Tex (southwest) Harrison Co & Marion Co, Tex (west) Cass Co, Tex (northwest)	Welcome to Caddo Parish, Louisiana Genealogy Trails Website. My name is Janice, and I am your host for Louisiana.  If you would like to submit data for this site, please email me with your submissions. Happy Trails to you on your quest for your ancestors. This is a new site and we hope to soon add data here that can help Louisiana researchers in their family searches. We need some help to do that though - volunteers to host these county websites. If you can make a basic webpage, and you have a desire to transcribe data for the free use of all researchers, we can use your talents! Review our Volunteer Information and email Kim. In the meantime, join our mailing list to be kept apprised of updates to this website.     Online Data We intend to put data from all these categories online eventually. Feel free to contribute your data to this site to help it grow!                          Website Updates 13 Feb 2008: DALZELL obit 18 Jul 2007: 1930 Census Excerpt for SANDERS; SANDERS birth and death info 22 May 2007: Death notice; marriage notice; list of cemeteries         Louisiana is organized by Parish rather than County We need Parish Hosts! Email Kim if you want to help us to keep online Genealogy free! Acadia Parish Madison Parish Allen Parish Morehouse Parish Ascension Parish Natchitoches Parish Assumption Parish Orleans Parish Avoyelles Parish Ouachita Parish Beauregard Parish Plaquemines Parish Bienville Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Bossier Parish Rapides Parish Caddo Parish Red River Parish Calcasieu Parish Richland Parish Caldwell Parish Sabine Parish Cameron Parish St. Bernard Parish Catahoula Parish St. Charles Parish Claiborne Parish St. Helena Parish Concordia Parish St. James Parish DeSoto Parish St. John The Baptist Parish East Baton Rouge Parish St. Landry Parish East Carroll Parish St. Martin Parish East Feliciana Parish St. Mary Parish Evangeline Parish St. Tammany Parish Franklin Parish Tangipahoa Parish Grant Parish Tensas Parish Iberia Parish Terrebonne Parish Iberville Parish Union Parish Jackson Parish Vermilion Parish Jefferson Davis Parish Vernon Parish Jefferson Parish Washington Parish Lafayette Consolidated Government Webster Parish Lafourche Parish West Baton Rouge Parish LaSalle Parish West Carroll Parish Lincoln Parish West Feliciana Parish Livingston Parish Winn Parish
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