Historical Marker
Sewall House
Historical marker location:
1705 Irving Place, Shreveport, Louisiana
( Marker is on Irving Place south of Herndon Street, on the left when traveling south.)
Historic Site. Shreveport.
Louisiana was briefly an independent republic. After declaring independence from Spain in 1810, a group of Louisianans established the Republic of West Florida, which included parts of what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. However, the republic was short-lived, as it was quickly annexed by the United States.