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Vincent Joseph Bella, known as V. J. Bella (born July 29, 1927), [1] is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 50 in Iberia and St. Mary parishes, whose service extended from 1972 to 1990. [2] Thereafter, Bella served in Baton Rouge as the appointed state fire marshal from 1990 to 1992 and again from 1996 to 2004.
The Central Fire Station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 427 Laurel St., was built in 1924. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It has also been known as Bogan Fire Station and it is home to the Robert A. Bogan Firefighters Museum . It is a two-story brick and terra cotta building with a Gothic Revival facade.
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] All city mayors and city-parish mayor-presidents were otherwise ...
Old Louisiana State Capitol. 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.
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] Proto- Muskogean divided into its daughter ...
Louisiana State Representative from East Baton Rouge Parish, 1964–1972 [2] Jack Wardlaw (1937–2012) 2004: Journalist; bureau chief in Baton Rouge of the New Orleans Times-Picayune (1980–2002) [133] Gus Weill (1933–2018) 1996: Radio host, writer, political consultant [134] T. Harry Williams (1909–1979) 1998
The St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, Louisiana, was the first in a series of three African-American churches, over 100 years old, that burned to the ground on March 26, 2019. On April 2, 2019, a second church, Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas, Louisiana, was set on fire. The third church, Mount Pleasant Baptist Church also in ...
September 23, 2024 at 1:17 PM. The Jackson Fire Department has not inspected Thalia Mara Hall since 2022 due to a lack of inspectors currently employed. The announcement came from Jackson Mayor ...