Shed Road - Bossier City, Louisiana
N 32° 31.945 W 093° 42.377
15S E 433675 N 3599672
A roadside marker remembering the Shed Road. The marker is now on the edge of the new Shed Road that only follows the old path in some places.
Waymark Code: WM1ZA2
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 08/08/2007
Views: 89
The marker reads:
The Shed Road, completed in 1880 by Judge John Watkins of Minden, LA, was old Louisiana’s most unique road. The shed covering the road was continuous for nine miles from Red River in Bossier Parish to Red Chute. It was abandoned after the coming of the first railroad fifteen years later.
Further research at the Bossier History Center shows that the Shed Road had wooden boards as the road base and terminated on the west end at the Dillard Plantation in what is now Bossier City.
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Marker Name: Shed Road
Marker Type: Roadside
What does marker relate to?: City/Parish/State
Year Erected or Date Dedicated: 01/01/1959
Parish: Bossier
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