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Henry Miller Shreve (October 21, 1785 – March 6, 1851) was an American inventor and steamboat captain who removed obstructions to navigation of the Mississippi, Ohio and Red rivers. Shreveport, Louisiana , was named in his honor.
1836 – Shreve Town Company organized; named for Henry Miller Shreve, one of its members. [1] 1837 – Shreve Town Company begins selling plots of land. [1] 1838 – Shreve Town becomes seat of newly formed Caddo Parish. [2] [3] 1839 Town of Shreveport incorporated. [4] [1] John Octavius Sewall elected mayor. [5]
The Red River was made navigable by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, who led the United States Army Corps of Engineers efforts to clear the Red River. A 180-mile-long (290 km) natural log jam, the Great Raft, had previously obstructed passage to shipping. Shreve used a specially modified riverboat, the Heliopolis, to remove the log jam. The company ...
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Sheriff John H. Holland, acting on orders issued by the court, quickly arrested Henry Shreve and seized the Enterprise. On May 2, attorney Abner L. Duncan , representing the shareholders of the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company, posted bail and made arrangements for Shreve and the Enterprise to be released.
The Attack on the Great Raft by Edith S. McCall, author of Conquering the Rivers: Henry Miller Shreve and the Navigation of America’s Inland Waterways (Louisiana State University, 1984). ISBN 0-8071-1127-9; Great Raft, Parish of Caddo, 2004. Tyson, Carl N. The Red River in Southwestern History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.
Captain Shreve High School (CSHS) is a public high school in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.Opened in the fall of 1967, the school was named for Captain Henry Miller Shreve, who was responsible for clearing the log jam on the Red River, which led to the founding of Shreveport in 1835.
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