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Minor League baseball began in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1902. The 1902 Baton Rouge Cajuns began play as charter members of the Class D level Cotton States League. [1] In 1903, the team changed its moniker to the Baton Rouge "Red Sticks," a translation of the city's French name into English, [2] and captured the 1903 Cotton League Championship.
West Baton Rouge Parish ( French: Paroisse de Bâton Rouge Ouest, Spanish: Parroquia del Oeste de Baton Rouge) is one of the sixty-four parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Established in 1807, [1] its parish seat is Port Allen. [2] With a 2020 census population of 27,199 residents, [3] West Baton Rouge Parish is part of the Baton Rouge ...
Downtown Baton Rouge is the downtown area of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It contains the city's central business district and the Louisiana State Capitol. [1] The city encompasses virtually all the major office buildings and stretches along the coast of the Mississippi River. [2] Nearby is Louisiana State University and Tiger Stadium.
Before 1835, state inmates were held in a jail in New Orleans. The first Louisiana State Penitentiary, located at the intersection of 6th and Laurel streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was modeled on a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It was built to house 100 convicts in cells of 6 ft (1.8 m) by 3.5 ft (1.1 m). [11]
1852 – Louisiana Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind [8] and Magnolia Cemetery established. 1860 – Andrew Lytle photography studio in business. [9] [10] 1861 – January 23: Louisiana secession convention held. [7] 1862. May 12: City occupied by U.S. federal troops. [7] August 5: Battle of Baton Rouge (1862).
Old South Baton Rouge ( OSBR) [1] is a project aimed to help revitalize the area between Louisiana State University and Downtown Baton Rouge. The area encompasses about three square miles. The project/initiative was launched by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation with a goal to form a long-term strategic plan and help the neighborhood eventually ...
Melvin Rambin, mayor of Monroe, 2000–2001; former banker in Baton Rouge, interred at Roselawn Memorial Park in Baton Rouge, R; Buddy Roemer, former governor and Baton Rouge businessman (b. 1943), I; Frank P. Simoneaux, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Baton Rouge Parish, 1972–1982; lawyer in Baton Rouge, D
Pentagon Barracks. / 30.45552°N 91.18933°W / 30.45552; -91.18933. The Pentagon Barracks, also known as the Old United States Barracks, is a complex of buildings located at the corner of State Capitol Drive and River Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the grounds of the state capitol. The site was used by the Spanish, French, British ...