If it feels like roads around Baton Rouge have gotten a bit less bumpy, thank the city-parish's IT department. Over the past few months, the number of pot holes on city-parish roads went from more ...

Local government officials estimated Tuesday that nearly 53,000 residences, 3,800 commercial buildings and 1,800 public buildings in East Baton Rouge Parish alone flooded amid storms and high ...

Why didn't the East Baton Rouge Parish ... The tract was a 2,800-acre sugar plantation and ... It was informally known as Perkins Road as early as around 1880 and started showing up on maps ...

Magnolia Mound was built in 1791. (WAFB) Magnolia Mound Plantation is one of the oldest houses in Baton Rouge. The Creole vernacular architecture style home sits on a natural ridge near the ...

We have focused on just one section of plantation homes in the Mississippi valley, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. There are other plantations scattered here and there. About 15 miles ...

But that’s just one of at least 17 plantation cemeteries Martin has documented. “With all of the African-American cemeteries in this parish, we've documented over 3,500 burials,” she said.