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suggested edits[ edit] Scotlandville is a community in northern Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was originally a small, independent rural community that developed along the Mississippi river in northern East Baton Rouge Parish. [1] Originally being called Scotland due to the high bluff facing the Mississippi River called Scott’s bluff, much of ...
Baton Rouge was an American hard rock band formed in 1986 in Pearl River, Louisiana. [1] The band produced two albums and enjoyed limited success during the final part of the hair metal explosion in the early 1990s, before disbanding. [2] All the band members went on to work with other hard rock recording artists Lance Bulen (Puzzle Gut and ...
1972 Baton Rouge shooting. On January 10, 1972, four men identified as members from the Nation of Islam (NOI) in Chicago held a public demonstration on North Boulevard near the Temple Theater in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They stood atop a Cadillac vehicle as they blocked the street.
History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville provided Baton Rouge as well as Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas with their current names. The foundation of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dates to 1721, at the site of a bâton rouge or "red stick" Muscogee boundary marker. It became the state capital of Louisiana in 1849.
List of magistrates, mayors, and mayor-presidents. Below is a list of Baton Rouge's chief executives—magistrates from 1818 to 1846, [27] [2] mayors from 1846 to 1949, and mayor-presidents from 1949 to present. The town magistrate was an appointive office, determined from within the elected five-member board of selectmen. [2]
3,500 men. 1,000 men. 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 initial Confederate force withdrew, but 400 more ...
Elemore Morgan Jr., landscape painter and photographer (d. 2008) Brooks Nader, model and actress (b. 1997) James Paul, Conductor Emeritus of the Baton Rouge Symphony (b. 1940) Cameron Richardson, actress, Open Water 2: Adrift (b. 1979) Rob49, rap artist. Percy Sledge, singer, "When a Man Loves a Woman". Steven Soderbergh, director.
Gold mining in Scotland. Gold has been mined in Scotland for centuries. There was a short-lived gold rush in 1852 at Auchtermuchty and Kinnesswood, [1] and another in 1869 at Baile An Or on the Kildonan burn in Helmsdale in Sutherland. [2] There have been several attempts to run commercial mines.