Placed on my birthday with my great newphew DylanCT0706. I have been facinated with Shed road since I moved back to Bossier City.
Shed Road was the South’s first all-weather turnpike, built in the 1870s in Bossier Parish. The private, nine-mile toll road was one of the state’s most unique, constructed so that nineteenth-century wagons—particularly those carrying commodities to market—could travel without fear of mud, swamps, or inclement weather. In a sense, it was an extension of the old northern concept of a covered bridge, built to keep ice off bridges in wintertime; but in Louisiana, ice was not a problem so much as swampy quagmires. Today a paved road by the same name follows the same route as the old covered structure.
CONGRATULATIONS TO Ethanzap02 FTF!!!!!!!