East Baton Rouge

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The paper discusses the background and history of Baton Rouge. The paper describes how the territory was annexed and divided by and East Baton Rouge Parish was created. The paper explains that thousands of new families settled in East Baton Rouge Parish from across the nation due to the many highly skilled jobs available from the expanding industries and businesses, thus making Baton Rouge one of the leading industrial, educational and business centers of the south. The paper shows how East Baton Rouge is predominantly urban and comprised of many diverse ethnic groups, since settlement was based on economic stratification as opposed to ethnicity.

From the Paper:

"On April 8, 1812, Louisiana was admitted into the Union (Brief). Baton Rouge was incorporated in 1817 and became the State Capital in 1849.
For most of the Civil War, between 1861 and 1865, Baton Rouge was under Union control, except for a brief time in 1862 (Brief). The capital was relocated several times during the war, then in 1882, the center of government was returned to Baton Rouge, at which time the city had a population of just over 7,000 (Brief). By the beginning of the twentieth century, the town had begun to develop industrially due to its strategic location on the first bluff along the Mississippi River north of the Gulf of Mexico (Brief). Baton Rouge is now 74.74 square miles in size with approximately 230,000 people, and the population of East Baton Rouge Parish is roughly 412,000 and is 472.1 square miles in size."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "A Brief History." Retrieved March 17 2006 from Baton Rouge Government Web site: http://brgov.com/aboutus.htm
• East Baton Rouge Parish, LA.: Ancestry and Family History. Retrieved March 17 2006 from: http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genealogyInfo.php?locIndex=3341
• Jackson, Joyce M.; Owens, Maida. "East Baton Rouge and Livingston Parishes." Retrieved March 17 2006 from Louisiana's Living Tradition Web site:http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Virtual_Books/Fla_Parishes/book_florida_baton.html

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