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Downtown - Baton Rouge's central business district. Spanish Town - Located between the Mississippi River and I-110, it is one of the city's more diverse neighborhoods and home to the State Capitol and the city's largest Mardi Gras Parade. Beauregard Town - A historic district between the downtown area and Old South Baton Rouge. Many of the ...
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Shenandoah is located in southeastern East Baton Rouge Parish at (30.401391, -91.004412 It is bordered to the west by Baton Rouge and to the south by Old Jefferson . Louisiana Highway 73 , Old Jefferson Highway, touches the southwest corner of Shenandoah and leads northwest 11 miles (18 km) to downtown Baton Rouge.
With ample precipitation, Baton Rouge is fifth on the list of wettest cities in the United States. Snow in the Baton Rouge area is usually rare, although it snowed in three consecutive years at the first decade of the 21st century: December 11, 2008, December 4, 2009, and February 12, 2010. In 2017, Baton Rouge received snow again. [55]
In 2006, the farmhouse was sold at auction following the death of Dr. Carey A. Phillips. The 40-acre (160,000 m 2) tract of land (including the house) has been made into a cemetery now called Oak Lane Memorial Park. Prairieville is also known for the historic school Prairieville Middle, which was changed and established around the 1930s or later.
The OSBR area was once a prominent part of the Baton Rouge Community that was racially integrated. It was the home of many of the best restaurants in the Baton Rouge area. . During the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s many of the middle class residents fled the area for better housing as better jobs were made available to all ra
A 1922 map and a 1926 deed confirm the area to be named Drehr's Place. [4] [5] The district was enlisted on the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1997. [1] The East Baton Rouge Parish Historic Preservation Commission declared Drehr Place a local historic district in
Jared Lamb, who is head of BASIS Baton Rouge Mattera Charter School in Louisiana, traded in his office for a cart that acts as a desk on wheels last year and has documented the results.