Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1866, the campus was donated to the Louisiana Presbytery and was known as Silliman College until 1931 when the school was shut down due to economic conditions and declining enrollment. The campus was used by the Louisiana Presbytery between 1934 and 1960 as the site of their annual summer conferences.
The ports of New Orleans, South Louisiana, and Baton Rouge cover 172 miles (277 km) on both banks of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (now closed by a rock dike built across the channel at Bayou La Loutre) extends 67 miles (108 km) from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, and the channel up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Baton Rouge runs at a 48-foot (14 ...
West Baton Rouge Parish: 121: Port Allen: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Was named Baton Rouge Parish until 1812. French phrase bâton rouge meaning red stick. A red stick was used by local Native Americans to mark the boundaries between tribal territories 28,266: 203 sq mi (526 km 2) West Carroll Parish: 123: Oak Grove: 1877: when ...
Baton-Rouge Gazette: 1819 1856 [7] Baton Rouge State-Times: 1904 1991 [8] Bogalusa Enterprise: 1914 1918 [9] Daily States [4] New Orleans 1880 Became New Orleans States-Item in 1960 [2] Gazette and Sentinel: Plaquemine: 1858 1864 [10] Houma Courier: 1878 1939 [11] The Independent: Lafayette: 2003 2017 [12] Lafayette Advertiser: 1865 19?? [13 ...
Louisiana Shreveport 1974 Louisiana Baton Rouge 1975: extant Texas Arkansas Little Rock Mississippi Jackson: Brazilian: 25 May 1935 South American: Brazil Central 1970 Brazil North Central 1972 Brazil São Paulo North 1974: extant Brazilian South Brazilian North Brazil South Central Brazil Campinas Brazil Sao Paulo East Brazil Sao Paulo West
The area contains many architecturally significant historic plantation houses that are included among Louisiana's listings in the National Register of Historic Places. The three traditional parishes have a combined land area of 1,939.04 km 2 (748.67 sq mi). They have a total 2010 census population of 120,459 inhabitants.
In 2007 First Presbyterian became the first More Light Presbyterian Church in Louisiana, welcoming the leadership of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, which in turn led in 2012 to the call of the Rev. Fred J. Powell III, the first "out" gay pastor of a mainstream church in Louisiana. [3]
Baton Rouge is a culturally distinct area of Louisiana, where Cajun and Creole Catholic culture from Greater New Orleans and Acadiana is syncretized with the African American Baptist culture of the Florida Parishes and South Mississippi. The city of Baton Rouge is a "college town" with Baton Rouge Community College, Louisiana State University ...