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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 ...
KBTR-CD. KBTR-CD (channel 36), is a low-power, Class A independent television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is owned by Louisiana Television Broadcasting alongside ABC affiliate WBRZ-TV (channel 2). The two stations share studios on Highland Road in Baton Rouge, where KBTR-CD's transmitter is also located.
Capital Area Transit System, labeling itself CATS, is a public transportation provider in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It serves the city and several west bank suburbs [citation needed], but does not travel outside parish boundaries or across the Mississippi River. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 1,109,900, or about 3,700 per ...
Added to NRHP. May 19, 1994. Baton Rouge station is a historic train station located at 100 South River Road in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was built for the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad which got absorbed by the Illinois Central Railroad. The station was a stop on the Y&MV main line between Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans ...
April 10, 2024. Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is an American public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [ 8 ] The university was founded in 1860 near Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of ...
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.
This Louisiana College Town Is More Than Worth A Visit—And No, It's Not Baton Rouge. Symiah Dorsey. August 18, 2024 at 8:29 AM. Marley Bohning/Hammond Downtown Development District ...
The route continues west through a primarily commercial area and past Baton Rouge Community College before entering downtown Baton Rouge. I-110 northbound has a direct exit to US 61/190 Business (Exit 1C) in downtown Baton Rouge, while southbound motorists must use N. 9th Street (Exit 1G) to connect directly to the business route.