Logansport, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Jane Sanford Keppler 
Source:  DeSoto Parish - LAGenWeb 

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                   LOGANSPORT   

In 1830, a Dr. Logan who practiced medicine on both the 
Louisiana and Texas sides of the Sabine River established 
a ferry crossing the waterway.  He named the site Waterloo, 
but the name later changed to Logan's Ferry and finally to 
Logansport.  Logansport is one of only two towns on the banks 
of Toledo Bend Reservoir, and it has one of the two bridges 
that cross the mighty lake into Texas.  DeSoto is bounded on 
the north by Caddo Parish, on the east by Red River and 
Natchitoches Parishes, on the south by Sabine Parish and on 
the west, the Sabine River and Toledo Bend separates DeSoto 
from Texas until the "dry line" begins a few miles north of 
Logansport.  This surveyed line extends some fourteen miles 
northward and is actually the old line of demarcation on which 
surveys began in 1819.  By driving out of Logansport along the 
old Marshall Road, travelers can find a granite marker that 
established the boundary between the Republic of Texas and the 
United States in 1840.  It is on the Louisiana-Texas line just 
north of Louisiana Highway 1618 as it enters into Texas.  Texas 
Highway 84 or Highway 7  from Shelby County, TX enters into 
Logansport.