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History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville provided Baton Rouge as well as Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas with their current names. The foundation of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dates to 1721, at the site of a bâton rouge or "red stick" Muscogee boundary marker. It became the state capital of Louisiana in 1849.
The yearly average temperature for Baton Rouge is 68.4 °F (20.2 °C) while the average temperature for January is 51.7 °F (10.9 °C) and July is 83.0 °F (28.3 °C). [56] The area is usually free from extremes in temperature, with some cold winter fronts, but those are usually brief. [57]
Natchitoches City Hall A store with live fish for sale near Natchitoches, 1940. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.. Natchitoches (/ ˈ n æ k ə t ə ʃ / NAK-ə-təsh; [2] [3] French: Les Natchitoches, [le nakitɔʃ]), officially the City of Natchitoches, is a small city and the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. [4]
B. Rouge replaced the previous utilization of stockpiled alumina at Mead, but only enough soda ash was allotted by the government to run Baton Rouge at 85% of the Mead requirements at the beginning. [19] Together with the almost finished Chalmette plant, its capacity was decided to be increased in November 1951, to 800,000 tons per year.
The Old Louisiana State Capitol, also known as the State House, is a historic government building, and now a museum, at 100 North Boulevard in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. It housed the Louisiana State Legislature from the mid-19th century until the current capitol tower building was constructed from 1929-32.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: WLFT-CD: 30.1 & 30.2: 30: Bethany World Prayer Center: 2011–2021: Served as Baton Rouge's first MeTV affiliate with the full feed on 30.2 and main feed predominantly airing MeTV mixed with local and religious programming Baytown-Houston, Texas: KUBE-DT4: 57.4: 32: NRJ TV LLC (Titan TV Broadcast Group) 2011–2018
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 ...
At least two people died as severe weather hit Louisiana overnight, ... east of Baton Rouge, ... Yankees star Aaron Judge becomes fastest player to 300 home runs in MLB history. Sports. Yahoo Sports.