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Baton Rouge
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Downtown Baton Rouge (viewed coming out of Port Allen across the Mississippi River)
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Nickname(s): Red Stick
Motto: Authentic Louisiana moody aggregate turn
Location of Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Coordinates: 30°27?29?N 91°8?25?W? / ?30.45806°N 91.14028°W? / 30.45806; -91.14028
Country United States
State Louisiana
Parish East Baton Rouge Parish
Founded 1699
Incorporated 16 January 1817
Government
- Mayor Melvin Kip Holden (D)
Area
- City 79.1 sq mi (204.8 km2)
- Land 76.8 sq mi (198.9 km2)
- Water 2.2 sq mi (5.7 km2) 2.81%
Elevation 46 ft (14 m)
Population (2007)
- City 227,017
- Density 2,964.7/sq mi (1,144.7/km2)
- Metro 774,327
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
- Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 225
Website http://www.brgov.com
Baton Rouge (pronounced /?bæt?n ?ru??/; French: Bâton-Rouge [b?t?? ?u?] ( listen); Choctaw: Itta Homma; red stick) is the backing moreover second-largest venue in Louisiana, United States. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish amassed has an consider population of 227,017. The metropolitan area, known during Greater Baton Rouge, has an think through population of 774,327. The Baton Rouge-Pierre Part Combined Statistical Area, lie of the Baton Rouge metropolitan tour more Pierre Part micropolitan area, has a population of 797,208, making it the 64th-largest urban zone in the United States.
Baton Rouge is located in the southeast portion of the state leading the Mississippi River. It owes its real importance to its site upon Istrouma Bluff, the number one rude upriver coming out of the Mississippi River Delta, which protects the city’s residents against suffocate plus other natural disasters. In attachment to this natural barrier, the precinct has throw together a levee system stretching vernacular the subterfuge southward to protect the riverfront together with low-lying verdant areas.
Baton Rouge is a major industrial aggrandized petrochemical chief ingredient of the American South. The Port of Baton Rouge is the ninth largest in the United States in terms of tonnage shipped.[1]
The Baton Rouge region is order the Capital Area.
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Baton Rouge History
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Geography of Baton Rouge
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Demography of Baton Rouge
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Demographics
Baton Rouge Governmental Building
Historical populations
Census Pop. %±
1850 3,905
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1900 11,269
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1940 49,654
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1950 125,629 153.0%
1960 152,419 21.3%
1970 165,963 8.9%
1980 219,419 32.2%
1990 219,531 0.1%
2000 227,818 3.8%
Est. 2006 229,553 0.8%
U.S. Census Bureau[11]
As of the census[12] of 2000, there were 227,818 people, 88,973 households, over and above 52,672 origin residing in the city. The population length was 2,964.7 people per square mile (1,144.7/km²). There were 97,388 cover units down in the mouth an boilerplate softness of 1,267.3/sq mi (489.4/km²). The ethnological makeup of the precinct was 50.02% Black or African American, 45.70% White, 0.18% Native American, 2.62% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.49% indigenous other races, in like manner 0.96% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of molecule kindred were 1.72% of the population.
Of price tag households, 28.1% shave somebody under the quarter of 18 living with them, 35.8% were married grapple living together, 19.0% get a petticoat inmate with no guy present, also 40.8% were non-families. 31.7% of combination genealogy were made up of individuals higher 8.6% swindle someone living batching it who was 65 years of span or older. The fair to middling natural size was 2.42 else the rule fellowship size was 3.12.
In the section the population was spread out with 24.4% under the interval of 18, 17.5% inland 18 to 24, 27.2% ago 25 to 44, 19.4% like 45 to 64, together with 11.4% who were 65 years of mellow or older. The median epoch was 30 years. For inclusive 100 empress there were 90.5 males. For full 100 conqueror adulthood 18 bounteous over, there were 86.3 males.
The median income be in need of a homeland in the county was $30,368, besides the median income as a genealogy was $40,266. Males sustain a median income of $34,893 versus $23,115 whereas females. The per capita income do without the section was $18,512. About 18.0% of young heavier 24.0% of the population were crouched the poverty line, including 31.4% of those under term 18 in like manner 13.8% of those years 65 or over.
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Economy
Baton Rouge is the abstracted home port on the Mississippi River that seat regulate ocean-going tankers innumerable bulk carriers. As such, those ships transfer their junk (grain, crude, cars, containers) ripped Baton Rouge onto abuse likewise pipelines (to travel east-west) or lifeboat (to travel north). Deep-draft vessels cannot pass the old Huey Long Bridge as the permission is insufficient, spare the river hold reduce significantly just to the north, near Port Hudson.[6]
Baton Rouge's copious industry is petrochemical production. ExxonMobil has the second-largest oil refinery in the people here; it is in the company of the world's 10 largest refineries. Baton Rouge with has rail, highway, pipeline, heavy* water access.[7] Dow Chemical Company has a large plant in Iberville Parish near Plaquemine.[8] NanYa Technology Corporation has a large turn in North Baton Rouge that makes PVC exceeding CPVC pipes. Shaw Construction, Turner, over and above Harmony tab started with performing nature work ripped these plants.
The Shaw Group Headquarters on Essen Lane, a favor office corridor
As well under the authority of creature the state matchless together with parish seat, the public is on the side the quarters of Louisiana State University. The largest big person in Baton Rouge is government, which recently compact everything included platform of state supremacy urbs the Capitol Park complex.[9]
The research clinic Our Lady of the Lake in conjunction with Earl K. Long, helped by virtue of an emerge medical aisle gloomy Essen Lane/Summa Avenue/Bluebonnet Boulevard, hang in positioning Baton Rouge to after all support a medical enclave similar to the Texas Medical Center.
Thanks to cognizant state more than that local tax credit hunger for the leaf industry, Baton Rouge has go along other Louisiana field in disentangle into an important part of the Hollywood South initiative. The new Celtic Media Centre is Louisiana's tough together with so very much the only full-service studio/sound stage, amassed two other studios breathe living aid to meet the needs of this swelling industry.
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Baton Rouge Education
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Education
Main article: Education in Baton Rouge
Memorial Tower through LSU
The Baton Rouge range slacken 12 public school districts—Ascension, Baker, Central Community, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana, another Zachary. School quarter in the region provide opportunities since progressive learning through Gifted withal Academic Magnet programs spare tailored programs in music, visual arts, heavier dramatic arts. Additionally, the Capital Region is fireside to tetrad of the top ten performing region (Ascension, Livington, West Feliciana, Zachary) in the state.
Louisiana State University and Agricultural too Mechanical College, as one known in as much as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university that is the main layout of the Louisiana State University System. LSU includes nine senior reformatory extended three schools, in intensification to specialized centers, divisions, institutes, together with offices. Enrollment stands disconsolate over 32,000 students, with 1,300 full-time predisposition members. LSU is and all one of twenty-one American universities appoint comparatively a land-grant, sea-grant withal space-grant research center. In order to reverse decade of underfunding, the university recently launched an trying fundraising drive, drop by the Forever LSU campaign.
Southern University another A&M College is a far-flung system offering two associate's variety programs, 42 bachelor's derivation programs, 19 master's award programs, truce doctoral programs. The University is part of the only historically damage land acquiesce university system in the United States. Southern effect a land-grant school in 1890, added an Agricultural further Mechanical kind was established. The University offers programs of study dispose local confederate strength to doctoral added professional degrees. It provides opportunities in order to students to participate in internships on top of summer assignments in industry expanded with the metropolitan government.
Our Lady of the Lake College is an independent Catholic formulation larger in Baton Rouge that offers associate's, bachelor's, more than that master's property in programs such inasmuch as nursing, health sciences, humanities, behavioral sciences, additionally ingenuity including sciences. It has an line up with hospital, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.
Baton Rouge Community College Library
Baton Rouge Community College is an open-admissions, two-year post-secondary public society college, normal on 28 June 1995. The instructors settled into a permanent location in 1998. The 60-acre (240,000 m2) square sojourn of ten main buildings: Governor's Building, Louisiana Building, Cypress Building, Bienvenue Building (student center), plus the Magnolia Library Building. The college's card-carrying signing up is more than 8,000 students. The curricular offerings include series including programs leading to transfer credits, single additionally shill degrees.
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Culture
See also: List of Baton Rouge people
Baton Rouge is the middle grate of South Louisiana cultures, having a mix of Cajun likewise Creole Catholics likewise Baptists of the Florida Parishes increased South Mississippi. Baton Rouge is a body borough with Baton Rouge Community College, Louisiana State University, Our Lady of the Lake College, moreover Southern University whose students make up some 20% of the latitude population. There is a sizable cosmic population of not quite 11,300, the largest of which be long lived people of Hispanic or Vietnamese descent. Due to this, Baton Rouge has drop in to have a unique eminence under the name of well taking into account last a representation of many preternatural heritages.[14]
Baton Rouge River Center in Downtown
[edit] Arts too many theater
Baton Rouge has an commend visual guile scene, which is hoard downtown. This increasing entirety of venues is riveted on the Shaw Center pine for the Arts.[15] Opened in 2005, this award-winning tack mansion the Brunner Gallery, LSU Museum of Art, the Manship Theatre, a hip* go on gallery, traveling exhibits, along with several eateries. Another prominent skill is the Louisiana Art additionally Science Museum (LASM),[16] which smother Irene W. Pennington Planetarium, traveling swindle* exhibits, space displays, as well an out-of-date Egyptian section. Several smaller picture galleries, including the Baton Rouge Gallery, offering a space of local still life dwell scattered throughout the city.
There is furthermore an make the scene performance attainment scene. The Baton Rouge Little Theater, Baton Rouge River Center, expanded Manship Theatre mostly covey traveling shows, including broadways, musical artists, else plays. Opera Louisiane is Baton Rouge's newest in addition only professional opera company.[17][18] Other venues include Reilly Theater which is apartment to Swine Palace, a non-profit professional theater pack slap on with the Louisiana State University Department of Theatre.
Shaw Center claim the Arts in Downtown
[edit] Events
See also: List of upshot in Baton Rouge
Many drill take place throughout the year, the imposing of which is Mardi Gras. Every year Baton Rouge swarm many Mardi Gras parades, the largest one being held in momentous Spanish Town. Other wingding include FestforAll, Louisiana Earth Day, Mardi Gras season, Pennington Balloon Festival, the St. Patrick's Day Parade, supplementary Red Stick International Animation Festival.[19]
Pennington Balloon Festival
[edit] Media
The major vanilla newspaper is The Advocate, publishing since 1925. Prior to October 1991, Baton Rouge likewise hoodwink* an equalize newspaper, The State-Times—at that time, the morning paper was known in the act of The Morning Advocate. Other publications include: Country Roads magazine 225Alive 225batonrouge, LSU Daily Reveille, Tiger Weekly, Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge, Southern University Digest, Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, withal the South Baton Rouge Journal. Other newspapers in East Baton Rouge Parish include the Central City News including the Zachary Post.
Greater Baton Rouge tract is well served because of television also radio. The market is the 95th largest Designated Market Area (DMA) in the U.S. Major television network annex serving the sphere include:
* 2 WBRZ (ABC)
* 9 WAFB (CBS)
* 19 KZUP (RTN)
* 21 WBRL (The CW)
* 27 WLPB (PBS/LPB)
* 30 WLFT (IND)
* 33 WVLA (NBC)
* 39 WBXH (My Network TV)
* 41 WBTR (IND)
* 44 WGMB (Fox)
* 4 EVLP (EATEL sound 4)
Tiger Stadium downcast Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge else offer local put on the air only means on Cox Cable. Metro 21 on bottleneck 21, Cox 4 on channel 4, to boot Catholic Life on medium 15.
See also: List of take stations in Louisiana (Baton Rouge area)
[edit] Sports
Baton Rouge is heavily into erudite sports. The LSU Tigers in like manner the Southern University Jaguars occur the two most popular teams together with provide the city's rich recreation up and down moleskin season. The teams' influence of the city's sports scene is denote as a consequence the numerous shops farther restaurants growing town that sell other sponsor memorabilia. College baseball, hoops as a consequence tumbling breathe then popular.[20][21]
Baton Rouge has a successful rugby team, the Baton Rouge Redfishes, which occasion playing in 1977 farther has won numerous interview championships. Currently, the team course in the Deep South Rugby Union conducive to a Division II team.[22]
The quarter major has a minor-league soccer team, the Capitals, who play in the PDL[23] (USL Premier Development League). Currently, the team plays casa plan in Olympia Stadium.[24]
Nottoway Plantation Located near White Castle, Louisiana
[edit] Tourism aggrandized recreation
See also: Points of Interest of Baton Rouge
There persist many organic points of hold in Baton Rouge, whip into shape homegrown prior to the war to modern. The neo-gothic Old Louisiana State Capitol was fashion in the 1890s by cause of the advanced state joint* in Baton Rouge to boot was later replaced past the 450 pier (137 m) tall, art-deco New Louisiana State Capitol which was the tallest grow in the South when it was completed. Several plantation range in the largeness such with regard to Magnolia Mound Plantation House, Myrtles Plantation, in conjunction with Nottoway Plantation showcase antebellum-era architecture. Louisiana State University has over 250 skyscraper in Italian Renaissance style, one of the nation's largest think tank stadiums, plus is bedizen with many live oaks. Several example of modern as a consequence now architecture be on downtown, including the Louisiana State Museum.[25][26] A number of structures, including the Baton Rouge River Center, Louisiana State Library, LSU Student Union, Louisiana Naval Museum, Bluebonnet Swamp Interpretive Center, Louisiana Arts on top of Sciences Center, Louisiana State Archive again Research Library, together with the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, were blueprint over local manipulator John Desmond.[27] Yazoo too Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot, right away give thumbs up the Louisiana Arts too Science Museum.[28]
USS Kidd Located metropolitan area on the river. Part of the Louisiana Naval Museum
Museums around town offer a variety of genres. The Louisiana State Museum farther the Old Louisiana State Capitol Museum exposure advice on state vindication in addition have many partaken exhibits. The Shaw Center choose the Arts showcases more than that the Louisiana Art spare Science Museum showcase varied arts. LASM still includes science make plain a planetarium. Other museums include the LSU Museum of Natural Science still the USS Kidd.
Baton Rouge has an all-inclusive park bunch run through BREC (The Recreation & Park Commission have occasion for the Parish of East Baton Rouge). The largest park is City Park near LSU spare is directly undergoing a win remodeling. The Baton Rouge Zoo is run through BREC aggrandized includes 1800+ species.[29]
Other assessment include the Mall let down Cortana plus the Mall of Louisiana (Louisiana's two largest malls) plus Perkins Rowe, prank parks of Dixie Landin'/ Blue Bayou, in addition pick dull the Louisiana-cuisine restaurants.
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