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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.
A map of East Baton Rouge Parish districts. The city of Baton Rouge and the Parish of East Baton Rouge have been run by a consolidated government since 1947. It combined the Baton Rouge municipal government with the rural areas of the parish, allowing people outside the limits of the city of Baton Rouge to use city services.
The prison is about 22 miles (35 km) northwest of St. Francisville, [52] about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Baton Rouge, [21] and 135 miles (217 km) northwest of New Orleans. [53] Angola is about an hour's drive from Baton Rouge, [54] and it is about a two-hour driving distance from New Orleans. [55]
Scenic. ← LA 3286. → LA 2. Louisiana Highway 1 ( LA 1) is a state highway in Louisiana. At 431.88 miles (695.04 km), it is the longest numbered highway of any class in Louisiana. It runs diagonally across the state, connecting the oil and gas fields near the island of Grand Isle with the northwest corner of the state, north of Shreveport .
Interstate 10 ( I-10 ), a major transcontinental Interstate Highway in the Southern United States, runs across the southern part of Louisiana for 274.42 miles (441.64 km) [1] [3] from Texas to Mississippi. It passes through Lake Charles, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge, dips south of Lake Pontchartrain to serve the New Orleans metropolitan area ...
17,300. Location. The Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge (locally known as the Old Bridge) is a truss cantilever bridge over the Mississippi River carrying US 190 ( Airline Highway) and one rail line between East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana and West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana . Although the bridge is named after former Louisiana governors ...
History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 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.
Celebrate Labor Day this year by running a 5K or 10K during the Walpole Road Race on Monday, Sept. 2. Bring your kids along to run in the 1-mile kids race. Bring your kids along to run in the 1 ...