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Location of East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Baton Rouge's first city flag (1968–1995) The city adopted its first flag on December 11, 1968, by recommendation of a flag committee established by mayor W. W. Dumas. It consisted of an emerald green field with the city seal in the center, which included a castle for Spain, a lion for England, and the fleur-de-lis for France.
The Portuguese House of Burgundy was the Portuguese cadet house of the House of Burgundy, founded by Henry, Count of Portugal in 1093. The senior legitimate line went extinct with the death of King Ferdinand I of Portugal in 1383, but two illegitimate lines, the Houses of Aviz and Braganza, continued to rule in Portugal, with interruptions, until 1910 and later Brazil until 1889.
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Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty ImagesDuring Prohibition, enforcing the nation’s liquor ban was a game of cat and mouse. Smugglers, speakeasies, and ...
Beauregard Town, also known as Beauregard Town Historic District, is a historic district in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, anchored by Government Street. It was commissioned in 1806 by Elias Beauregard, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is the second-oldest neighborhood in Baton Rouge (after Spanish Town).
Downtown Baton Rouge Historic District is a historic district in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, located along 3rd Street, from Main Street to North Boulevard. The district comprises a total of 43 commercial buildings ranging in dates from c.1860 to mid-1950s.
The flag of Baton Rouge flies on a cloudy day. By the end of the 2000s decade, Baton Rouge was one of the largest mid-sized American business cities and one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas with populations under 1 million — with 633,261 residents in 2000 and an estimated 750,000 in 2008.