Allendale Timeline

2016
2012
Allendale Strong Group Forms

A Learning, Doing Community

2010
2005
2000
1996
I49 construction completed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_49 Construction of I-49 began in 1981 between Opelousas and the small town of Washington.[9][10] This segment joined the portion running concurrent with US 167, an existing limited-access highway, and was completed by 1983.[10][11] By the following year, virtually all remaining rural portions of the route were under construction,[11][12] and 95% of this mileage was…
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1990
1980
1970
1969
SWEPCO Park land is accepted by the City of Shreveport

History here SWEPCO Park officially became a park of the City of Shreveport in 1969 when Shreveport Mayor Clyde E. Fant signed Resolution No. 148 “to accept on behalf of the City of Shreveport for the purposes of furthering and expanding the recreational, cultural and aesthetic development of said City,…
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1958
1957
I20 Construction through Shreveport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_20_in_Louisiana

1877
Old Galilee Baptist Church built by freed slaves

Historic civil rights landmark is crumbling

1839
Captain Henry Miller Shreve clears logjam

In 1832 Captain Henry Miller Shreve began clearing the logjam in the Red River, referred to as the Great Raft, opening up the river to navigation in 1839.