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The Greater Baton Rouge State Fair is an annual one-week attraction held every mid-fall. The fair began in 1965 and has been under the management of the Baton Rouge Jaycee organization since 1985. [126] In 2021, the fair set an attendance record with over 100,000 attendees. [127]
Raising Cane's River Center (originally named the Riverside Centroplex and later the Baton Rouge River Center [1]) is an entertainment complex in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Opened in 1977, the complex includes: an arena, ballroom, exhibition center, theatre and library. The venue hosts over 500 events per year.
Baton Rouge Blues Festival - Baton Rouge; Bayou Country Superfest - New Orleans; DeltaFest - Monroe; Essence Music Festival - New Orleans; Festival International - Lafayette; French Quarter Festival - New Orleans
Baton Rouge River Center Arena (2004-16) Address: 275 River Rd S Baton Rouge, LA 70802-5809: Location: Raising Cane's River Center: Owner: Baton Rouge Area Convention & Visitors Bureau: Operator: ASM Global: Capacity: 8,900: Opened: January 14, 1977 () Tenants; Baton Rouge Kingfish (1996–2003) Baton Rouge Bombers (1997–98)
The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition was a world's fair held in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.It was held 100 years after the city's earlier world's fair, the World Cotton Centennial in 1884.
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In 1936, LSU chose to install Mike I as its first live bengal tiger mascot at the venue, instead of in Baton Rouge. [44] A book by Mark and Jacqueline Scott called Beat TECH! Inside the Louisiana State Fair Football Classics, 1940–42 covers several prominent Louisiana Tech–NSU games before World War II interrupted the series. [ 45 ]
Carville is a neighborhood of St. Gabriel, located in Iberville Parish in southern Louisiana, sixteen miles south of Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi River.Best known as the childhood hometown of famed political consultant James Carville, it is also known for its sixty-five-year history as the only place in America to treat leprosy until outpatient treatment became viable in 1981.