1978 – PIONEER HERITAGE CENTER – A joint project of the Junior League and LSUS, the center depicts pioneer life in Northwest Louisiana in the early 1800s. The center comprises seven plantation structures, including the Thrasher House (a log dogtrot) and Caspiana House (the big house from Caspiana Plantation), both listed on the National Register of Historic Places; a detached kitchen; a log single pen blacksmith shop; a doctor’s office; a commissary; and a river front mission. A hands-on teaching facility, the center demonstrates to hundreds of Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto and Natchitoches Parish students how early settlers lived.