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Products. Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. Parent. Formerly Mercantile Stores Company, Inc. (1992-1998) Website. None. Maison Blanche ( White House in French) was a department store in New Orleans, Louisiana, and later also a chain of department stores. It was founded in 1897 by Isidore Newman ...
Number of locations. 80. Area served. Southern United States. Products. Jewelry. H. J. Wilson Co., also known as Wilson's, was an American catalog showroom chain based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Founded in 1947 as a jewelry store, it was acquired in 1985 by Service Merchandise .
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.
The new store, located at the Mall of Louisiana, 6401 Bluebonnet Blvd. in Baton Rouge, will be h.h.gregg's third store in Louisiana, as h.h.gregg will also open two stores in the New...
Website. www .shawcenter .org. The Shaw Center for the Arts is a 125,000 square foot (12,000 m²) performing art venue, fine arts museum, and education center located at 100 Lafayette Street in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It opened in 2005.
History of Louisiana. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to about 8000 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers. [1] Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. [2]
Baton Rouge ( / ˌbætənˈruːʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]; Spanish: Bastón Rojo) 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; [4] it is the seat of Louisiana's most populous parish (county ...
Education. University of Wisconsin, La Crosse ( BA) Regent University ( MA) Sharon Weston Broome (born October 1, 1956) is the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She served in the Louisiana State Senate representing the 15th district from 2005 to 2016. [1] She was elected mayor-president in a runoff election held on December 10, 2016.
Downtown Baton Rouge is the downtown area of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It contains the city's central business district and the Louisiana State Capitol. [1] The city encompasses virtually all the major office buildings and stretches along the coast of the Mississippi River. [2] Nearby is Louisiana State University and Tiger Stadium.
November 10, 2009. Downtown Baton Rouge Historic District is a historic district in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, located along 3rd Street, from Main Street to North Boulevard. The district comprises a total of 43 commercial buildings ranging in dates from c.1860 to mid-1950s. Third street was downtown Baton Rouge main ...