History
Gold Point Plantation is a 2000 acre working farm located in north Caddo Parish along the Red River in Louisiana. It is located 10 miles north of downtown Shreveport.
In 1887, the corps of engineers built a levee system in that enabled farmers to move across the Red River from Bossier to build homes and farm the rich alluvial soil in Caddo Parish. The name, Gold Point, was given to the land by river boat captains who plied the Red River. As the story goes, a river boat, carrying gold coins up river from New Orleans to General Cook's Army, capsized in the bend of the river near the site that has since been named Gold Point Plantation. The gold coins, intended for paying the troops fighting the Sioux Indians at Custer's Last Stand, were documented leaving but never arriving!
The Adger family has owned and farmed this plantation since its inception in the late 1880's after the levee system enabled farmers to live and work in the Red River Valley - which was formally an uninhabitable flooded plain infested with Malaria and Yellow Fever.
