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Shreveport has changed a lot in the past years. However, there is one such street which is the same since it was originated. What is it?
Am I wrong to guess that you came up with Youree Drive, which definitely is the longest street in town?
I looked on a map, which is fairly current, and Youree begins at the east end of Flournoy Lucas Road and continues to where it joins Spring and Market street – almost to downtown. But who in the world was Youree or Peter Youree?
Our population should be aware of him because his “reign” lasted from Reconstruction until his death in 1914. (Martha Cotton is my source of information from an Oct. 26, 1962, Shreveport Times article.) “He was a gentleman – kind with a flash of color and spirit that helped start the transformation of a riverfront town into a busy, modern city, which it is today.”