| Late 18th century | Many settlers come here from Virginia, Maryland, Georgia & the Carolinas, taking advantage of liberal land grants extended by the Spanish government. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, a post served as a portage station along Nolan’s Trace, a trail blazed in the horse trade between Spanish Texas and Natchez. |
| 1805 | Rapides, a settlement that later becomes Pineville, is the county seat of Rapides County of the Territory of Orleans. |
| 19th century | In the early 19th century an influx of merchants, farmers, and herdsmen gave rise to the community of Pineville. Throughout the century Pineville served as an important commercial link to towns and villages north of the Red River. |
| 1860 | Louisiana State University has its beginnings as the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy in Pineville with William Tecumseh Sherman as its first president. It will move to Baton Rouge in 1869. |
| 1878 March 14 |
The town of Pineville is incorporated. |
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