Bossier City, Louisiana<\/h3>
Bossier City (\/\u02c8bo\u028a\u0292\u0259r\/ BOH-zh\u0259r) is a city in Bossier Parish, which is located in the northwestern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana in the United States.[4][5] It is the second most populous city in the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan statistical area. In 2019 it had a census-estimated population of 68,159, down from 68,222 in 2018.[6] Bossier City is located on the eastern bank of the Red River and is closely tied economically and socially to its larger sister city Shreveport on the opposite bank. Bossier City is the largest city in Louisiana that is not the parish seat.\n<\/p>
In the 1830s, the area of Bossier City was the plantation Elysian Grove, which was purchased by James Cane and his second wife Mary Doal Cilley [Bennett] Cane. James had come to the area with his first wife Rebecca Bennett, and her brother, William Bennett, and his wife Mary Doal Cilley [Bennett] Bennett. They ran a trading post across the river on what was then Caddo Indian Land, a portion called \"Bennett's Bluff\". The trading post partners became a 1\/7 partner in the new Shreve Town, which eventually developed as Shreveport.\n<\/p>
Elysian Grove plantation was located along the Red River for access to transportation, where the Texas Trail crossed the Red River. The trading post on the west side operated a ferry between what would become Shreveport and Bossier City. The plantation loading and unloading dock was later recorded as Cane's Landing in the old ferry log books.[7] For a very short time, Cane's Landing was known as Cane City. The Canes and Bennetts were among the earliest settlers in the area. Mary D. C. Bennett gave birth to the first white baby of the area, William Smith Bennett Jr., who died at an early age.[8][9]<\/p>
In 1843, a section of land east of the Red River was divided from the Great Natchitoches District and Claiborne Parish areas and was called Bossier Parish. It was named in honor of Pierre Evariste John Baptiste Bossier, a former Creole general, who became a cotton planter in Bossier Parish. He was one of the first European settlers in the area.\n<\/p><\/div>\n