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Martha Condray Searcy, The Georgia-Florida Contest in the American Revolution, 1776-1778 (University: University of Alabama Press, 1985). ISBN 978-0-8173-5091-8. J. Russell Snapp, John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1996). ISBN 978-0-8071-2024-8.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1957. Cashin, Edward J. William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN 1-57003-325-0. Chidsey, Donald Barr. The War in the South: the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution, an Informal History. New York ...
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.
1805 – Spanish Town, first residential area, is established. 1806 – Beauregard Town, second neighborhood, is established. 1810 – Baton Rouge becomes part of the Republic of West Florida in September, [2] but by December the republic is annexed by the U.S. into the Territory of Orleans, which in 1812 becomes the state of Louisiana.
BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana House kicked off discussion Tuesday of Gov. Jeff Landry’s call for a convention this spring to pare down the state’s Constitution.
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)
Amendment No. 2: Repeal of inactive special funds in Constitution. A vote for would: Remove six inactive funds with zero or near-zero balances from the Louisiana Constitution. A vote against would ...
The plantation house, first a cottage, is one of the earliest buildings in the present-day city of Baton Rouge. [citation needed]The land was owned originally by James Hillin, an early Scots settler who arrived in 1786, who lived there with wife Jane Stanley Hillin, five children, and six enslaved Africans: Thomas, John, Lucia, Catherine, Jenny, and Anna. [6]