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Based aircraft. 240. Source: Federal Aviation Administration [ 1 ] Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport ( IATA: BTR, ICAO: KBTR, FAA LID: BTR ), also known as Ryan Field, is a public use airport located four miles (7 km) north of the central business district of Baton Rouge, a city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.
72000549 [ 1] Added to NRHP. September 7, 1972. The Magnolia Mound Plantation House is a French Creole house constructed in 1791 near the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [ 2] Many period documents refer to the plantation as Mount Magnolia. The house and several original outbuildings on the grounds of Magnolia Mound Plantation are ...
Alexandria International Airport: P-N 141,173 Baton Rouge: BTR: BTR KBTR Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (Ryan Field) P-N 390,107 Lafayette: LFT: LFT KLFT Lafayette Regional Airport (Paul Fournet Field) P-N 223,529 Lake Charles: LCH: LCH KLCH Lake Charles Regional Airport: P-N 58,122 Monroe: MLU: MLU KMLU Monroe Regional Airport: P-N 107,107 ...
Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field is a baseball stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is the home stadium of the Louisiana State University Tigers baseball team. The stadium section (and LSU's previous baseball stadium 200 yards to the north) were named for Simeon Alex Box, an LSU letterman (1942), Purple Heart and Distinguished Service Cross recipient, who was killed in North Africa during ...
Before 1835, state inmates were held in a jail in New Orleans. The first Louisiana State Penitentiary, located at the intersection of 6th and Laurel streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was modeled on a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It was built to house 100 convicts in cells of 6 ft × ft (1.8 m × 1.1 m). [ 11]
Airline Highway is a divided highway in the U.S. state of Louisiana, built in stages between 1925 and 1953 to bypass the older Jefferson Highway.It runs 115.6 miles (186.0 km), [1] carrying U.S. Highway 61 from New Orleans northwest to Baton Rouge and U.S. Highway 190 from Baton Rouge west over the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long Bridge.
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]
LSU Rural Life Museum. Coordinates: 30.4116°N 91.1157°W. The LSU Rural Life Museum is а museum of Louisiana history in Baton Rouge, US. [ 1] It is located in the Burden Museum and Gardens, a 400-acre (1,600,000 m 2) agricultural research experiment station, and is operated under the aegis of Louisiana State University.