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Baton Rouge ( ; French for "Red Stick", French: Bâton-Rouge ; Spanish: Baton Rouge ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge ( ; French for "Red Stick", French: Bâton-Rouge ; Spanish: Baton Rouge ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city. It forms the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish and is located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. As the capital city, Baton Rouge is the political hub for Louisiana, and is the second-largest city in the state after New Orleans, with an estimated population of 227,715 in 2016. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, is also the second-largest in Louisiana, with a population of 830,480 people as of 2015.
History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The foundation of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dates to 1721, at the site of a "bâton rouge" or "red pole" Muscogee boundary marker. It became the state capital of Louisiana in 1849. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to about 8000 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers. Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gathererHistory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. Proto-Muskogean divided into its daughter languages by about 1000 BC; a cultural boundary between either side of Mobile Bay and the Black Warrior River begins to appear between about 1200 BC and 500 BC, the Middle "Gulf Formational Stage".
West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
West Baton Rouge Parish () is one of the sixty-four parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,788. The parish seat is Port Allen. The parish was created in 1807. West Baton Rouge Parish is part of the Baton Rouge, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The parish has a highly rated school system, and is one of the few in Louisiana that has privatized school bus services. West Baton Rouge saw a very small percentage of growth after Hurricane Katrina; according to an estimate of July 2006, the parish gained an additional 864 residents. The Medora Site, a Plaquemine culture mound site located adjacent to Bayou Bourbeaux on the flood plain of Manchac Point, a hair-pin bend of the Mississippi River in the southeast corner of the parish, was instrumental in defining the Plaquemine culture and period.
Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra
The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1947, is an orchestra located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. The orchestra performs at the Theater for Performing Arts in the Baton Rouge River Center. In 1940, a group of women formed a string quartet, playing in their own homes, their long-term dream being to have a symphony orchestra able to service the local community. After several years of work, the new Baton Rouge Civic Symphony Orchestra gave its first performance on February 5, 1947 in the Baton Rouge High School Auditorium. Its mission is to develop and maintain a financially sound, first-class symphony orchestra with a regional and national profile which will provide education and cultural enrichment for the people of the greater Baton Rouge region and neighboring communities.
Baton Rouge Magnet High School
Baton Rouge Magnet High School (BRMHS or Baton Rouge High) is a public magnet school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, founded in 1880. It is part of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System with a student body of approximately 1500 students. The current building was built in 1926, and, as Baton Rouge High School, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The campus underwent a two-year renovation and expansion starting in 2010, resulting in the addition of two new wings to the main building. This renovation was completed and the school reopened in fall 2012. Baton Rouge High is also one of the highest-ranked schools in the state, and consistently wins state-level academic competitions.
List of state highways in Louisiana (400–449)
The following is a list of state highways in the U.S. state of Louisiana designated in the 400-449 range. Louisiana Highway 400 (LA 400) runs in an east–west direction from a local road northeast of Attakapas Landing to LA 1 north of Supreme, Assumption Parish. From the west, LA 400 begins at the east end of a bridge across the Cancienne Canal. It continues the path of a local road that begins at a junction with LA 401 just north of Attakapas Landing on Lake Verret. LA 400 heads eastward and intersects LA 1011 and LA 1010 before ending at a junction with LA 1 opposite Bayou Lafourche. LA 400 is an undivided two-lane highway for its entire length.
USS Baton Rouge (SSN-689)
USS "Baton Rouge" (SSN-689) is a nuclear-powered attack submarine which served with the United States Navy. With her keel laid down on 18 November 1972, "Baton Rouge" was launched on 26 April 1975. She became the second "Los Angeles"-class submarine to be commissioned, on 25 June 1977. In 1995, she was the first of her class to be decommissioned, after a collision with a . "Baton Rouge" was the first and currently only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "Baton Rouge" was a nuclear attack submarine and, as such, was optimized for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and strike operations.