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Baton Rouge, LA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Baton Rouge a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Baton Rouge Home page. The Baton Rouge Home page provides as much information as possible on Baton Rouge. Knowing Baton Rouge’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Baton Rouge’s Home page, you will also find Baton Rouge’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Baton Rouge has a population of 605449. 47.1% of Baton Rouge’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.9 are female. 30.9% of Baton Rouge is married and 49.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $186,883, and the average rent is $886. Household median income in Baton Rouge is $44,177, and the individual median income is $24,051. Baton Rouge’s Ethnic is the following: Black(53.5%), White(38.1%), Hispanic(4.1%), Asian(3.7%), Multiple(2.3%), Other(2%), Native(0.3%), Pacific(0.1%).
Baton Rouge ( BAT-ən ROOZH; from French Bâton-Rouge 'red stick') is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of counties in other U.S.
states. Since 2020, it has been the 99th-most-populous city in the United States and the second-largest city in Louisiana, after New Orleans; Baton Rouge is the 18th-most-populous state capital. According to the 2020 United States census, the city-proper had a population of 227,470; its consolidated population was 456,781 in 2020.
The city is the center of the Greater Baton Rouge area—Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area—with a population of 870,569 as of 2020, up from 802,484 in 2010.The Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico.
This allowed development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding. In addition, it built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low-lying agricultural areas.It is a culturally rich center, with settlement by immigrants from numerous European nations and African peoples brought to North America as slaves or indentured servants.
It was ruled by seven different governments: French, British, and Spanish in the colonial era; the Republic of West Florida; as a United States territory and state; Confederate, and United States again since the end of the American Civil War. Through the various occupying national governments of Baton Rouge, the city and its metropolitan area have developed as a multicultural region practicing many religious traditions from Catholicism to Protestantism, and Louisiana and Haitian Vodou; the area has also become home to a sizeable lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and elected the first open LGBT politician for the Louisiana Public Service Commission.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, research, motion picture, and growing technology center of the American South.
It is the location of Louisiana State University—the LSU system's flagship university and the state's largest institution of higher education. It is also the location of Southern University, the flagship institution of the Southern University System—the nation's only historically black college system.
The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the tenth-largest in the U.S. by tonnage shipped, and is the farthest upstream Mississippi River port capable of handling Panamax ships. Major corporations participating in the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area's economy include Amazon, Lamar Advertising Company, BBQGuys, Marucci Sports, Piccadilly Restaurants, Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, ExxonMobil, Brown & Root, Shell, and Dow Chemical Company.
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