About Centenary College of Louisiana

Centenary College of Louisiana is a private highly developed arts hypothetical in Shreveport, Louisiana. The moot is affiliated once the United Methodist Church. Founded in 1825, it is the oldest chartered innovative arts intellectual west of the Mississippi River and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

Shreveport (/ˈʃriːvpɔːrt/ SHREEV-port) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the most populous city in the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, and ranks third in population in Louisiana after Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. Shreveport extends along the west bank of the Red River (most notably at Wright Island, the Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park, and Bagley Island) into against Bossier Parish. The population of Shreveport was 199,311 at the 2010 U.S. census. The United States Census Bureau’s 2019 estimates for the city’s population decreased to 187,112.

Shreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation received to build a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas. Prior to Texas becoming independent, this trail entered Mexico. The city grew throughout the 20th century and, after the discovery of oil in Louisiana, became a national center for the oil industry. Standard Oil of Louisiana (absorbed by Standard Oil of New Jersey and now part of ExxonMobil) and United Gas Corporation (now ration of Pennzoil) were headquartered in the city until the 1960s and 1980s. After the loss of jobs in the oil industry, the near of Shreveport Operations (a General Motors vehicle factory), and further economic problems the city struggled as soon as a declining population, poverty, drugs and violent crime. Since Cedric Glover’s tenure as mayor of Shreveport, the city began efforts to revitalize its infrastructure to decline its population decline, revive the economy through diversification, and degrade crime.

Shreveport is the educational, commercial and cultural middle of the Ark-La-Tex region, where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. It is the location of Centenary College of Louisiana, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Louisiana Tech University Shreveport, Southern University at Shreveport, and Louisiana Baptist University. Its against city Bossier City is the location of Bossier Parish Community College. The city forms allocation of the I-20 Cyber Corridor linking Shreveport and Bossier City, Ruston, Grambling, and Monroe to Dallas and Tyler, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia. Companies in the declare of significant operations or headquarters in Shreveport are Regions Financial Corporation, JPMorgan Chase, Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, AT&T Mobility, United Parcel Service, Walmart, Chick-fil-A, Waffle House, SWEPCO, General Electric, UOP LLC, Calumet Specialty Products Partners, and APS Payroll.