Baton Rouge Hotels

Baton Rouge Hotels

Hotels in Baton Rouge are often required for accommodation. Some tourists like to visit the city to see the culture, the entertainment, the history, and tourist attractions of the city. Some want to see the scenic views in the city or in the area. Some tourists may want a hotel in the city or in the region. Some may want a luxury hotel or cheap hotel. Some may want a hotel that is large or small. Some may want a hotel that has good views. Some may want ahotel that has good parking facilities.

Baton Rouge is the capital and second largest city in Louisiana.

Baton Rouge is located in the southeast portion of the state along the Mississippi River. It owes its location and its historical importance to its site upon Istrouma Bluff, the first bluff upriver from the Mississippi delta. In addition to the natural protection, the city sports a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and the southern agricultural areas.

Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, and port center of the American South. The Port of Baton Rouge is the ninth largest in the United States in terms of weight.

The Baton Rouge region, like that of other capital cities in the United States, is called the "Capital Area."

Baton Rouge dates back to 1699, when French explorer Sieur d'Iberville leading an exploration party up the Mississippi River saw a reddish cypress pole festooned with bloody animals and fish that marked the boundary between Houma and Bayou Goula tribal hunting grounds. They called the tree "le bâton rouge," or red stick.

Since European settlement, Baton Rouge has functioned under seven governing bodies: France, England, Spain, Louisiana, the Florida Republic, the Confederate States, and the United States. In the mid-1700s when French-speaking settlers of Acadia in Canada's maritime, were driven into exile by British forces, many took up residence in rural Louisiana. Popularly known as Cajuns, descendants of the Acadians maintained a separate culture that immeasurably enriched the Baton Rouge area. Incorporated in 1817, Baton Rouge became Louisiana's state capital in 1849. Architect James Dakin was hired to design the new Capital building in Baton Rouge, and rather than mimic the federal Capitol Building in Washington, as so many other states had done, he conceived a Neo-Gothic medieval castle overlooking the Mississippi, complete with turrets and crenelations. During the first half of the nineteenth century the city grew steadily as the result of steamboat trade and transportation; at the outbreak of the American Civil War the population was 5,500 people. The Civil War halted economic progress but did not actually touch the town until it was occupied by Union forces in 1862.The Confederates gave up Baton Rouge without a fight, deciding to consolidate their forces elsewhere, during which time, the state capital had been moved to Shreveport, but it was returned to Baton Rouge in 1880.

Baton Rouge along with Tallahassee, FL, and Austin, TX, is one of the southernmost capital cities in the lower 48 United States. Baton Rouge is one of the the farthest inland port centres that can process deep ocean tankers and cargo carriers. As such, those ships transfer their load (grain, crude, cars, containers) at Baton Rouge onto rails and pipelines (to travel east-west) or barges (to travel north-south).

Baton Rouge has many neighborhoods both inside and outside the city limits: Banks, Beauregard Town, Bocage, Broadmoor, Brookstown, Brownfields, Camelot, Capital Heights, Cedarcrest, Centurion Place, Country Club of Louisiana, Gardere, Garden District, Goodwood, Glen Oaks, Greendale, Inniswold, Jefferson Terrace, Kenilworth, Lake Side, Mall City, Magnolia Woods, Melrose Place, Mid-City, Millerville, Monticello, Oak Hills Place, Old Hermitage, Old Jefferson, Old South Baton Rouge, Parkview Oaks, Pollard Estates, Riverbend, Santa Maria, Scotlandville, Shenandoah, Sherwood Forest, Spanish Town, Southdowns, Tara, University Club, University Gardens, University Hills, University Lakes, Wedgewood, Westminster, Woodlawn Estates, Village St. George, Zion City

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