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Centenary College of Louisiana is an undergraduate, liberal arts college in Shreveport, Louisiana. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and is one of 16 members of the Associated Colleges of the South. Centenary College of Louisiana is the oldest chartered liberal arts... colleges west of the Mississippi River. The lineage of the college dates back to 1825, when the College of Louisiana opened in Jackson, Louisiana. The school enjoyed early success, but struggled financially until Centenary College of Clinton, Mississippi agreed to merge with the Jackson campus, creating Centenary College of Louisiana in 1845. The college prospered until the beginning of the American Civil War. Three lines, written in a large bold hand, cover the entire page of the faculty minute-book dated October 7, 1861: "Students have all gone to war--College suspended, and God Help the Right!" During this time, the Jackson campus was used as a Confederate hospital for the garrison of Port Hudson, and was sacked upon arrival of Union troops in 1863.
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Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the third largest metropolitan area in Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States. It is the seat of Caddo Parish and extends along the Red River into neighboring Bossier Parish. Bossier City is... separated from Shreveport by the Red River. The population was 218,021 at the 2010 census, and the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area population exceeds 535,000. The Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area ranks 117th in the United States, according to the United States Census Bureau. Shreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop 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 and, prior to that time, into Mexico. Shreveport is the commercial and cultural center of the Ark-La-Tex, the area where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet.
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