Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The OSBR area was once a prominent part of the Baton Rouge Community that was racially integrated. It was the home of many of the best restaurants in the Baton Rouge area. . During the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s many of the middle class residents fled the area for better housing as better jobs were made available to all ra
Downtown - Baton Rouge's central business district. Spanish Town - Located between the Mississippi River and I-110, it is one of the city's more diverse neighborhoods and home to the State Capitol and the city's largest Mardi Gras Parade. Beauregard Town - A historic district between the downtown area and Old South Baton Rouge. Many of the ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Southern terminus of LA 3246 10.9: 17.5: LA 427 north (Perkins Road) West end of LA 427 concurrency 11.0: 17.7: I-10 – Baton Rouge, New Orleans: Kleinpeter: 11.3: 18.2: LA 427 south (Perkins Road East) East end of LA 427 concurrency 12.6: 20.3: US 61 north (Airline Highway) LA 948 (Highland Road) West end of US 61 concurrency; western ...
MapQuest offers online, mobile, business and developer solutions that help people discover and explore where they would like to go, how to get there and what to do along the way and at your destination.
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 ...
The Baton Rouge Colored High School was located at the corner of Perkins Road and Bynum Street in 1913. This facility was later struck by lightning and destroyed. McKinley was the first high school established for African Americans in East Baton Rouge Parish. McKinley's first graduating class was in 1916.
Geismar to Baton Rouge: From Geismar to Baton Rouge, the route followed LA 73 and is still known as (Old) Jefferson Highway. The original routing through downtown Baton Rouge followed Claycut Road, LA 427 (South Acadian Thruway), LA 73 (Government Street), 19th Street, and North Street to the former Mississippi River ferry landing to Port Allen.