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The Independence Park Botanic Gardens are botanical gardens located in Independence Park at 7950 Independence Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They are open during daylight hours without admission fee. [1] The Gardens contain displays of blooming woody plants, ground covers, and wetland plants. They include a rose garden, crape myrtle garden ...
Baton Rouge Zoo - BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo is home to over 1,800 animals from around the world. The Baton Rouge Zoo was the first zoo in Louisiana to achieve the distinguished honor of being accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Blue Bayou Waterpark - Blue Bayou has over 20 water rides. Favorites are the "Mad Moccasin," "Conja ...
List of magistrates, mayors, and mayor-presidents. Below is a list of Baton Rouge's chief executives—magistrates from 1818 to 1846, [ 27][ 2] mayors from 1846 to 1949, and mayor-presidents from 1949 to present. The town magistrate was an appointive office, determined from within the elected five-member board of selectmen. [ 2]
Battle of Baton Rouge (1862) / 30.4510; -91.1676. Cdre. David D. Porter. Map depicting Louisiana and approaches to New Orleans as depicted during the Civil War. [ 2] Map depicting Battle of Baton Rouge, August 5th 1862. [ 3] The Battle of Baton Rouge was a ground and naval battle in the American Civil War fought in East Baton Rouge Parish ...
History of Louisiana. 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. [ 1] Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. [ 2]
Garden District, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Coordinates: 30°26′24″N 91°09′57″W. The Garden District is a residential neighborhood located in Baton Rouge 's Mid-City area where Park Boulevard intersects Government Street. The Garden District is an established historic area with many upscale homes and an active civic association [1] .
09000899 [ 1] Added to NRHP. November 10, 2009. Downtown Baton Rouge Historic District is a historic district in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, located along 3rd Street, from Main Street to North Boulevard. The district comprises a total of 43 commercial buildings ranging in dates from c.1860 to mid-1950s.
ExxonMobil 's Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the sixth-largest oil refinery in the United States and seventeenth-largest in the world, [ 1] with an input capacity of 540,000 barrels (86,000 m 3) per day as of January 1, 2020. [ 2] The refinery is the site of the first commercial fluid catalytic cracking plant that began ...