Shreveport is the third-largest city and the principal city of the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as well as being the 108th-largest city in the United States.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. Many people in the community refer to the two cities of Shreveport and Bossier City as Shreveport-Bossier. Barnwell Garden & Art Center, The National Rose Garden, The Gardens of the American Rose Center, Hirsch Memorial Coliseum and the Riverwalk Park are some of the city’s attractions and recreations