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East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

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99historic places
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1810formed
456,781pop. 2020
52cemeteries
3CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 99 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972; 3 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Baton Rouge, Baker, Zachary.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Louisiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse East Baton Rouge titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

64 of 99 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

99 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Audubon Plantation HouseBaton RougeBuilding1987
Baker High School AuditoriumBakerBuilding2014
Baker Presbyterian ChurchBakerBuilding1990
Barthel PigeonnierBaton RougeBuilding1983
Baton Rouge Electric Company (BRECO) Public Utilities ComplexBaton RougeDistrict2017
Baton Rouge High SchoolBaton RougeBuilding1986
Baton Rouge Junior High SchoolBaton RougeBuilding1984
Baton Rouge National CemeteryBaton RougeSite1997
Baton Rouge Savings and Loan AssociationBaton RougeBuilding2014
Baton Rouge Waterworks Company StandpipeBaton RougeStructure1973
Beauregard Town Historic DistrictBaton RougeDistrict1980
Beauregard Town Historic District (Boundary Increase)Baton RougeDistrict1983
Beauregard Town Historic District (Boundary Increase)Baton RougeDistrict1983
Beauregard Town Historic District (Boundary Increase)Beauregard TownDistrict2000
Belisle BuildingBaton RougeBuilding1993
Borden DairyBaton RougeBuilding2020
Broussard HouseBaton RougeBuilding2003
Campbell Apartment BuildingBaton RougeBuilding2011
Capital City Press BuildingBaton RougeBuilding1986
Central Fire StationBaton RougeBuilding1984
City Park Golf CourseBaton RougeDistrict2002
Cushman HouseBakerBuilding1991
Downtown Baton Rouge Historic DistrictBaton RougeDistrict2009
Drehr Place Historic DistrictBaton RougeDistrict1997
Dufrocq SchoolBaton RougeBuilding2002
East Baton Rouge Parish LibraryBaton RougeBuilding2024
Fairhaven Plantation HouseZacharyBuilding1988
Florence Coffee HouseBaton RougeBuilding1980
French House, TheBaton RougeBuilding1982
Fuqua Hardware Store BuildingBaton RougeBuilding1999
Hart HouseBaton RougeBuilding1980
Heidelberg HotelBaton RougeBuilding1982
Heidelberg Hotel and Hotel King (Boundary Increase)Baton RougeBuilding2008
Highland StockadeBaton RougeSite2000
Kean's Apartment BuildingBaton RougeBuilding2024
Kleinert Terrace Historic DistrictBaton RougeDistrict1998
Kleinpeter HouseBaton RougeBuilding1986
Kleinpeter, John and Amelia Sharp, HouseBaton RougeBuilding2015
Knox BuildingBaton RougeBuilding2006
Kress BuildingBaton RougeBuilding2006
LSU Campus MoundsBaton RougeSite1999
Landry, Kenneth C. and Carolyn B., HouseBaton RougeBuilding2021
Laurel Street Fire StationBaton RougeBuilding2019
Lee Site (16 EBR 51)Baton RougeSite1984
Leland CollegeBakerBuilding1982
Les Chenes VertsBaton RougeBuilding1993
Lincoln TheaterEast Baton RougeBuilding2010
LongwoodBaton RougeBuilding1983
Louisiana State Capitol Building and Gardens NHLBaton RougeBuilding1978
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (Additional Documentation)Baton RougeDistrict1988
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (Boundary Increase)Baton RougeDistrict2024
Magnolia CemeteryBaton RougeSite1985
Magnolia Mound Plantation DependencyBaton RougeBuilding1977
Magnolia Mound Plantation HouseBaton RougeBuilding1972
Main Street Historic DistrictBaton RougeDistrict1985
Manship HouseBaton RougeBuilding1980
McKinley High SchoolBaton RougeBuilding1981
Mount Hope Plantation HouseBaton RougeBuilding1980
Nicholson SchoolBaton RougeBuilding1995
Old Louisiana Governor's MansionBaton RougeBuilding1975
Old Louisiana State Capitol NHLBaton RougeBuilding1973
Old Post OfficeBaton RougeBuilding1980
Olinde BuildingBaton RougeBuilding2014
Ory HouseBaton RougeBuilding1993
Pecue HouseBaton RougeBuilding1994
Pentagon BarracksBaton RougeBuilding1973
Peralta, Sarah, Archeological SiteBaton RougeSite1995
Petitpierre-Kleinpeter, Joseph, HouseBaton RougeBuilding1986
Port Hudson National CemeteryZacharySite1999
Potts HouseBaton RougeBuilding1972
Powder MagazineBaton RougeBuilding1973
Prince Hall Masonic TempleBaton RougeBuilding1994
Rabalais HouseBaton RougeBuilding2010
Reiley-Reeves HouseBaton RougeBuilding1979
Reymond HouseBaton RougeBuilding1998
Robinson, Eddie Sr., Historic DistrictBaton RougeDistrict2018
Roseland Terrace Historic DistrictBaton RougeDistrict1982
Roumain BuildingBaton RougeBuilding1985
Sanders, Jared Young, Jr., HouseBaton RougeBuilding1997
Santa Maria Plantation HouseBaton RougeBuilding1978
Scott Street SchoolBaton RougeBuilding1994
Southern University Archives BuildingScotlandvilleBuilding1981
Southern University Historic DistrictBaton RougeDistrict1999
Southern University Historic District (Boundary Increase)Baton RougeDistrict2020
Spanish TownBaton RougeDistrict1978
St. James Episcopal ChurchBaton RougeBuilding1978
St. Joseph CathedralBaton RougeBuilding1990
Stewart-Dougherty HouseBaton RougeBuilding1973
Tessier BuildingsBaton RougeBuilding1978
U.S.S. KIDD NHLBaton RougeStructure1983
US Post Office and Courthouse-Baton RougeBaton RougeBuilding2000
Union Federal Savings and Loan AssociationBaton RougeBuilding2015
Virginia Street Historic DistrictZacharyDistrict2011
Warden's House-Old Louisiana State PenitentiaryBaton RougeBuilding1974
Welsh-Levy BuildingBaton RougeBuilding2006
Winans, Fonville, StudioBaton RougeBuilding1999
Wooddale TowerBaton RougeBuilding2025
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company DepotBaton RougeBuilding1994
Zachary Railroad DepotZacharyBuilding1983

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

East Baton Rouge was formed in 1810 (1810-12-22) from non-parish area within Feliciana County.

EAST BATON ROUGE Parish created by proclamation of the Territorial Governor from non-parish area within Feliciana County.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

East Baton Rouge Parish population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

457k231k5,2201820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5,2208,13816,04619,96631,15344,51388,415158,236230,058366,191412,852456,781

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

52 cemeteries and 8 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 52 of 52 listed
NameLatLon
Ballard Cemetery30.68907-91.0526
Barnes Cemetery30.57462-91.20302
Baton Rouge National Cemetery30.44963-91.16788
Beech Grove Cemetery30.7049-91.25427
Black Cemetery30.64935-91.06816
Bradford Cemetery30.52159-90.98373
Cain Cemetery (historical)30.64324-91.29205
Cann Cemetery30.35227-90.99933
Conrad Cemetery30.35457-91.22006
Devall Cemetery30.51816-91.06859
Devall Cemetery30.54803-91.15105
Drehr Cemetery30.70518-90.98593
Edwards Cemetery30.53379-91.07204
Gilbert Memorial Cemetery30.46602-91.13177
Greenoaks Memorial Park30.45862-91.08103
Harelson Cemetery30.39269-91.03343
Hillcrest Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum30.58379-91.13149
Hillman Cemetery30.34713-90.97037
Hope Cemetery30.5031-91.15269
Johnson Cemetery30.66348-91.16915
Kleinpeter Cemetery30.38232-91.08347
Knox Cemetery30.42635-91.01353
Laboring Society Cemetery30.37115-91.12699
Little Misery Cemetery30.43073-91.08848
Louisiana National Cemetery30.6436-91.25387
Louisiana National Cemetery30.64581-91.25501
Lovett Cemetery30.60108-91.00137
Magnolia Cemetery30.4513-91.16733
Mount Holly Grove Cemetery30.66185-91.04788
Mount Olive Baptist Cemetery30.48355-91.08876
Nickwack Cemetery30.55102-91.19844
O'Neal Cemetery30.42551-90.99887
Odom Cemetery30.58917-91.00079
Perkins Cemetery30.6907-90.87849
Port Hudson National Cemetery30.66101-91.2751
Redwood Cemetery30.66533-91.10116
Resthaven Gardens of Memory Cemetery30.39932-91.0473
Richards Gardens of Memory Cemetery30.34884-90.98742
Rose Hill Cemetery30.49343-91.0604
Roselawn Cemetery30.45658-91.14788
Saint Joseph Cemetery30.45241-91.17326
Shaffer Cemetery30.6587-91.1692
Shanks Cemetery30.50657-91.0251
Shaw - McHugh Cemetery30.63617-91.1371
Southern Memorial Gardens30.54368-91.16199
Stanford Cemetery30.65712-91.17094
Stoney Point Cemetery30.63739-90.93349
Sweet Olive Cemetery30.44685-91.1651
Woodlawn Baptist Cemetery30.40119-91.01592
Young Family Cemetery30.68709-91.2128
Youngblood Cemetery30.53846-91.02497
Zachary Public Cemetery30.65584-91.19398
Historical populated places — 8 of 8
NameLatLon
Ambrosia30.65491-91.19344
Ben Hur30.35297-91.17316
Brashears30.47519-91.02594
Burlington30.57158-90.98899
Hopeville30.34464-90.98371
Orr30.47463-91.0326
Starling30.32214-91.12927
Stonypoint30.63546-90.93621

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

BattlefieldStudy acresDist.Site ID
Baton Rouge5,80512.0 kmLA003
Plains Store2,88119.5 kmLA009
Port Hudson5,60623.6 kmLA010

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

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