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Belle Grove, also known as Belle Grove Plantation, was a plantation and elaborate Greek Revival and Italianate-style plantation mansion near White Castle in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Completed in 1857, it was one of the largest mansions ever built in the Southern United States , surpassing that of the neighboring Nottoway , today cited as ...
West Baton Rouge Parish: 74002186 San Francisco Plantation House: May 30, 1974: Reserve: St. John the Baptist Parish: Open for tours 78003448 Santa Maria Plantation House: December 29, 1978: Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge: 82000445
Baton Rouge (/ ˌ b æ t ən ˈ r uː ʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]; Louisiana Creole: Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 United States census, making it Louisiana's second-most populous city. [4]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 653 square miles (1,690 km 2), of which 619 square miles (1,600 km 2) is land and 34 square miles (88 km 2) (5.2%) is water. [6] Iberville Parish is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville provided Baton Rouge as well as Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas with their current names. The foundation of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dates to 1721, at the site of a bâton rouge or "red stick" Muscogee boundary marker. It became the state capital of Louisiana in 1849.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km 2), of which 2.9 square miles (7.6 km 2) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 2.75%, are water. [5] It lies within the Baton Rouge metropolitan area.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana has many historic neighborhoods, dating back as far as the early 19th century. 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.
Then known as the Baton Rouge standard metropolitan area (or Baton Rouge SMA), it consisted of a single parish–East Baton Rouge–and had a population of 158,236. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Following a term change by the Bureau of the Budget (present-day U.S. Office of Management and Budget ) in 1959, the Baton Rouge SMA became the Baton Rouge standard ...