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November 10, 2009. Downtown Baton Rouge Historic District is a historic district in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, located along 3rd Street, from Main Street to North Boulevard. The district comprises a total of 43 commercial buildings ranging in dates from c.1860 to mid-1950s. Third street was downtown Baton Rouge main ...
Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) is a state agency of Louisiana, headquartered in Baton Rouge. It was previously called the Louisiana Department of Labor. The name changed in 2008. It gives assistance to state residents who had lost their jobs. In 2018 it had 925 people working for the agency. References
Date. January 5, 1979. Robert Wayne Williams (February 6, 1952 – December 14, 1983) was an American murderer convicted of the January 1979 murder of Willie Kelly, a 67-year-old security guard. He was executed in 1983 by the state of Louisiana by electric chair. [1] He became the first person to be executed in Louisiana since 1976 when the ...
Features the late Federal Period (1790–1830) Oakley Plantation, where artist John James Audubon stayed in 1821. Autrey House Museum. Dubach. Lincoln. Northwest. Historic house. 1849 dogtrot log house, owned by the Lincoln Parish Museum [4] Baker Heritage Museum. Baker.
4000. ExxonMobil 's Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the sixth-largest oil refinery in the United States and seventeenth-largest in the world, [1] with an input capacity of 540,000 barrels (86,000 m 3) per day as of January 1, 2020. [2] The refinery is the site of the first commercial fluid catalytic cracking plant that began ...
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Shaw employs approximately 1,400 people across its offices and operations in North America and the Middle East. History [ edit ] Shaw was founded in 1986 by J.M. Bernhard Jr. , Oscar J.LaFleur, and A.W. Angelo as a fabrication shop.
Sharon Weston Broome (born October 1, 1956) is the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She served in the Louisiana State Senate representing the 15th district from 2005 to 2016. [1] She was elected mayor-president in a runoff election held on December 10, 2016. [2] [3] Broome is the first African-American woman to serve as mayor-president.
In 2019, the racial and ethnic makeup of the area was 56% White, 36% Black and African American, 2% Asian, 1% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic and Latin American of any race. There was a median household income of $60,746 and per capita income of $31,571. An estimated 15% of the metropolitan population lived at or below the poverty line.