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Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011) was an American-Australian audio engineer and clandestine chemist.He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade's counterculture. [1]
The Kress store in Baton Rouge was the site of that city's first civil rights sit-in. That event helped save it from demolition 45 years later. [5] In 1964, Genesco, Inc., acquired Kress. The company abandoned its center-city stores and moved to shopping malls. Genesco began liquidating Kress and closing down the Kress stores in 1980.
Unofficially known as the Brave Cave, lacking any official documented name, is a former inmate processing center, and more recently off-site interrogation facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that had been run by the Baton Rouge Police Department's street-crime squad, Brave (Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination) until August 2023. [1]
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]
May 14, 1987 (21371 Hoo Shoo Too Road: Baton Rouge: 2: Baker High School Auditorium: Baker High School Auditorium: January 29, 2014 (3200 Groom Road: Baker
Baton Rouge entered its first ever soccer franchise into the PDL in 2007, under the leadership of Bo Cassidy, a veteran coach and collegiate player at UMass Amherst.The Capitals started their inaugural season with three straight defeats, failing to pick up their first win until the fourth game of the season, 1–0 over fellow new boys Mississippi Brilla.
Sports competitions in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Louisiana State Capitol (French: Capitole de l'État de Louisiane) is the seat of government for the U.S. state of Louisiana and is located in downtown Baton Rouge.The capitol houses the chambers for the Louisiana State Legislature, made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as the office of the Governor of Louisiana.