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Had been Francis Routh's cotton plantation; and the land is now part of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [ 4] 82000469. Ardoyne Plantation House. November 1, 1982. Houma. Terrebonne. 80004476. Arlington Plantation.
72000549 [ 1] Added to NRHP. September 7, 1972. The Magnolia Mound Plantation House is a French Creole house constructed in 1791 near the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [ 2] Many period documents refer to the plantation as Mount Magnolia. The house and several original outbuildings on the grounds of Magnolia Mound Plantation are ...
Baton Rouge ( / ˌbætənˈruːʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]; Louisiana Creole: Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it had a population of 227,470 as of 2020 [update]; [ 4 ] it is the seat of Louisiana's ...
Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman. July 19, 2024 at 8:08 AM. You can tell from the undated photos posted over the years on Magnolia Cafe West's social media that the counterculture diner ...
In 1911, Mother de Bethanie Crowley and five Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady traveled to America, stating their desire to serve the sick and needy. [1] Eight years after establishing a hospital in Monroe, Louisiana, Mother de Bethanie was invited to Baton Rouge by Monsignor Francis Leon Gassler of St. Joseph's Cathedral and a group of leading local physicians, to tour the downtown area in ...
History of Louisiana. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to about 8000 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers. [ 1] Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. [ 2]
List of magistrates, mayors, and mayor-presidents. Below is a list of Baton Rouge's chief executives—magistrates from 1818 to 1846, [ 27][ 2] mayors from 1846 to 1949, and mayor-presidents from 1949 to present. The town magistrate was an appointive office, determined from within the elected five-member board of selectmen. [ 2]
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