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Belaire was founded in 1974. The first principal of Belaire High School was Thomas Holliman. A group of students from all over the Baton Rouge community helped define the school colors (burnt orange, royal blue, and white), and the school mascot. Today, they are still known to be the Belaire Bengals.
59 ft (18 m) GNIS feature ID. 555993 [1] Scotlandville is a community located in north Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It was originally a small, independent rural community that developed along the Mississippi River in northern East Baton Rouge Parish. [2] In 1914, Southern University and A&M College relocated to this community.
November 02, 1982. Scottland Plantation House is located in Tallulah, Louisiana. It was built in 1860 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 1982. [1] Scottland Plantation was the home of Thomas B. Scott, the first sheriff of Madison Parish. The house was bought and restored by Lt. Col. (ret.) Porter Johnson.
Scotlandville Magnet High School ( SMHS) is a public high school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. Scotlandville High is part of the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools . The school serves the Scotlandville neighborhood of Baton Rouge as well as a section of the Brownfields census-designated place. [2] [3]
Stores were stocking ribbons in the colors of Mardi Gras—purple, gold and green—for the upcoming Carnival season. However, none of the green had yet arrived at Reymond's Store at the corner of Third and Main streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
86003130 [2] Added to NRHP. November 06, 1986. Baton Rouge Magnet High School ( BRMHS or Baton Rouge High) is a public magnet school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, founded in 1880. It is part of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System with a student body of approximately 1500 students. The current building was built in 1926, [3] [4 ...
Early life Coat of Arms of David Farragut. James Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 to George Farragut (born Jordi Farragut Mesquida, 1755–1817), a Spanish Balearic merchant captain from the Mediterranean island of Menorca, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch-Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee.
The Battle of Plains Store was fought on May 21, 1863, in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, during the campaign to capture Port Hudson in the American Civil War. Union troops advancing from Baton Rouge, Louisiana , clashed with 600 Confederates at a road junction.
Battle of Kontum. / 14.35611°N 108.00778°E / 14.35611; 108.00778 ( Kontum) The lead-up to the Battle of Kontum began in mid-1971, when North Vietnam decided that its victory in Operation Lam Son 719 indicated that the time had come for large-scale conventional offensives that could end the war quickly. The resulting offensive ...
Vũng Rô Bay incident. The Vũng Rô Bay incident refers to the discovery of a 100-ton North Vietnamese naval trawler attempting to unload supplies and munitions on a beach in South Vietnam's Vũng Rô Bay on 16 February 1965. The incident spurred further United States Navy involvement in the Vietnam War .