Download or read book The History of West Baton Rouge Parish written by West Baton Rouge Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''The History of West Baton Rouge Parish: People, Places, Progress'' is comprehensive. This book will take readers from discovery of the area now called West Baton Rouge Parish from the end of the seventeenth century to 2010. Readers will not only experience the age of steamboats and frontiersmen, they will also discover the complexity of a parish adapting to the various influences of the twentieth century and beyond. This book describes in chronological order how the parish evolved through economic, political, and social developments with stories of individuals that helped mold a community.
Download or read book West Baton Rouge Parish written by West Baton Rouge Historical Association and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Baton Rouge Parish was established in 1807 along the banks of the Mississippi River across from what would become Louisiana's capital. Its connection to the river has long been an attraction for the people who live here and the pioneers who first settled the area more than 200 years ago. Today, the parish has three incorporated towns--Addis, Brusly, and Port Allen. Because of the rich alluvial soil deposited by the Mississippi River, West Baton Rouge largely became an agricultural community; sugar has always been it biggest crop. In the early 20th century, the Texas & Pacific Railroad made the community a bustling hub. Over the years, West Baton Rouge's position along the river attracted petrochemical companies like Dow, ShinTech, and Placid Refining Company. Now, the parish has one of the largest deepwater ports and a thriving major chemical and manufacturing industry.
Download or read book 300 Years of History in West Baton Rouge written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Historical Society of East and West Baton Rouge written by Historical Society of East and West Baton Rouge and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medora Site West Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana written by George Irving Quimby and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People Place and Attachment in Local Bars written by John W. McEwen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, places of drink are historically linked to community and social interactions, and such establishments often possess loyal patrons for whom going to the local bar is a natural and routine part of their daily life. In People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars, John McEwen places drinking establishments at the fore of American geography as containers of material culture and collective history. McEwen draws on ethnographic data collected in four local bars in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to present a new unified theory of people-place relationships. McEwen highlights sense of place, place attachment, and the concept of rootedness.
Download or read book The Plains and the People written by Virginia Lobdell Jennings and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The residents of The Plains should be proud ofthe part their ancestors played in creating the colorful history of thissection of Louisiana. The Old World cultures of France, Spain, England,Ireland, and Scotland blended to form the gracious, warmhearted people whoinhabit this beautiful plainsland today.From the area's beginnings, through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and onto near present day, the history of The Plains is presented in exacting detail.It is further complemented by family genealogies and listings of extanttombstones.
Download or read book Along the River Road written by Mary Ann Sternberg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favorite and overlooked destinations. Featuring background information about the area and a detailed guided tour -- upriver on the east bank and downriver along the west -- the book gives an overview of the River Road, serving as an accessible and definitive companion to exploring the corridor. Sternberg's abiding appreciation of the area's allure, garnered over twenty years, produces a must-have travel companion to a place that far exceeds its common reputation as only a parade of elegant antebellum mansions. In this new edition, she again encourages travelers to experience the many treasures of this wondrous byway for themselves, so they too can see how much it has changed over the past decade.
Download or read book Celebrating Our Remembrances written by Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana written by Miller, Smith & Champagne and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Profile written by United States. Office of Economic Opportunity. Information Center and published by . This book was released on 1968* with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites written by Julia Rose and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public historians, and museum visitors as learners. Through this lens, museum workers and public historians can develop compelling and ethical representations of historical individuals, communities, and populations who have suffered. It includes various examples of difficult knowledge, detailed examples of specific interpretation methods, and will give readers an in-depth explanation of the psychoanalytic educational theories behind the methodologies. Audiences can more responsibly and productively engage in learning histories of oppression and trauma when they are in measured and sensitive museum learning environments and public history venues. To learn more, check out the website here: http://interpretingdifficulthistory.com/
Download or read book A History of Baton Rouge 1699 1812 written by Rose Meyers and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 17, 1699, a group of French explorers under Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, were making their way up the Mississippi River from New Orleans when they spotted a red pole on a high bluff overlooking the river. The pole marked the boundary between the hunting grounds of the Houma and the Bayagoula Indians, and the Frenchmen christened it le baton rouge.The name Baton Rouge has survived, despite several attempts to change it, and today it designates the capital of a state whose people, by 1812, had lived under four flags -- French, English, Spanish, and American. Despite its tiny size, the settlement at Baton Rouge was a strategic outpost on the Mississippi River, and a number of fierce contests were waged for its control. In fact, the only battle of the American Revolution fought in Louisiana took place at Baton Rouge in 1779.In A History of Baton Rouge Rose Meyers has gathered, evaluated, and set down the stories, legends, facts, and circumstances of the founding of Baton Rouge; its troubled history under the colonial governments of France, England, and Spain; and its eventual entry into the Union in 1812. Featured in the book are portraits of early civil and military leaders and maps dating back to the French colonial period.
Download or read book Tirailleurs written by Thomas H. Richey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tirailleurs was a company of soldiers from Brusly Landing, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. They were mostly Acadians and fought gallantly for the Southern Cause. This book follows them through the Civil War and uses diaries, letters, and memoirs to allow the soldiers to tell their own story. From a bloodbath at Shiloh's Hornet's, Nest, we follow them through the terrible debacle at the Battle of Nashville. Tirailleurs is the first definitive history of the 4th Louisiana Infantry, CSA. Over sixteen hundred men served in the 4th LA and are all listed by company in the book s appendix making it an excellent genealogical resource.
Download or read book The Medora Site West Baton Rouge Parish Louisana written by Guimby G.I. and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana 1824 1900 written by Nicholas Russell Murray and published by . This book was released on 1978* with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronicles of West Baton Rouge written by Elizabeth Kellough and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
