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Myrtles Plantation
LA
~1.61 miles from St. Francisville city center
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The Myrtles Plantation is an antebellum plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, near Baton Rouge. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the plantation is a bed and breakfast, and it offers historical and mystery tours.The Myrtles Plantation was built in 1794 by General David Bradford and was called Laurel Grove at the time. General Bradford lived there alone for several years, until being pardoned for his role in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1799. He then moved his wife Elizabeth and their five children to the plantation from Pennsylvania. One of Bradford's law students, Clark Woodruff (or Woodrooff) eventually married Bradford's daughter, Sara Mathilda, in 1817. After the death of David Bradford in 1808, Clark and Sara Woodruff managed the plantation for Elizabeth Bradfor...
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Greater Baton Rouge Zoo
Baton Rouge la
~20.22 miles from St. Francisville city center
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The Baton Rouge Zoo is located 15 minutes North of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Zoo is operated by BREC, the Recreation and Park Commission of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo is home to over 1,800 animals from around the world. The Baton Rouge Zoo was the first zoo in Louisiana to achieve the distinguished honor of being accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.The zoo is open between 9:30 a.m.to 5 p.m. daily and until 6:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday from the first weekend in April to Labor Day. The zoo is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.The admission price for adults is $6.00, senior citizens, $5.00, ages 2 to 12 $3.00, and children under age 1 are free. Membership packages for free admission a...
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Southern University and A&M College
Baton Rouge LA
~20.84 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Southern University and A&M College is a historically black college located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.The concept of Southern University was put forth by P. B. S. Pinchback, T. T. Allain, Erick J Gilmore and Henry Demas Anthony Lawless as an institution "for the education of persons of color" at the 1879 Louisiana State Constitutional Convention.In April 1880, the Louisiana General Assembly chartered Southern University, originally located in New Orleans. Southern opened its doors on March 7, 1881 with twelve students. One of the original locations of the early campus was the former Israel Sinai Temple on Calliope Street, between St. Charles and Camp streets in New Orleans. Southern became a land grant school in 1890, and an Agricultural and Mechanical department was established. Bec...
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DOWNTOWN BATON ROUGE (Neighborhood)
Baton Rouge LA
~24.85 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Louisiana State Capitol
Baton Rouge LA
~25.17 miles from St. Francisville city center
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The Louisiana State Capitol building is the capitol building of the state of Louisiana, located in Baton Rouge. The capitol houses the Louisiana State Legislature, the governor's office, and parts of the executive branch. At 450 feet (137 meters) tall, with 34 stories, it is the tallest capitol building in the United States, the tallest building in Baton Rouge, and the seventh-tallest building in Louisiana. It is located on a 27-acre (110,000 m2) tract, which includes the capitol gardens. The Louisiana State Capitol building is a National Historic Landmark.The building features sculptures depicting scenes from Louisiana and U.S. history. Engraved into the stone around the main entrance is the quotation "We have lived long but this is the noblest work of our whole lives...The United State...
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Pentagon Barracks
Baton Rouge LA
~25.20 miles from St. Francisville city center
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The Pentagon Barracks are a complex of buildings located at State Capitol Drive at River Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the grounds of the state capitol. The site has been used by the Spanish, French, British, Confederate States Army, and United States Army and was part of the short-lived Republic of West Florida. During its use as a military post the site has been visited by such notable figures as Lafayette, Robert E. Lee, George Custer, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.
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Huey Long Statue
Baton Rouge LA
~25.25 miles from St. Francisville city center
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A large statue of Huey Long on the grounds of the Louisiana State Capitol depicts his achievements. He is also immortalized by a statue in the U.S. Capitol.
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Louisiana Art and Science Museum
Baton Rouge la
~25.70 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Louisiana Art & Science Museum is located at 100 South River Road in downtown Baton Rouge. See hours and admission on the museum's website.
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Old State Capital Center
Baton Rouge
~25.71 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Louisiana's Old State Capitol Center for Political and Governmental History is the state's official repository of film and video archives and houses several interactive state-of-the-art exhibits.
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Shaw Center for the Arts
Baton Rouge LA
~25.72 miles from St. Francisville city center
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The Shaw Center for the Arts is a 125,000 square foot (12,000 m²) performing art venue, fine arts museum, and education center located at 100 Lafayette Street in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It opened in 2005. The Center includes the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, the LSU School of Art Gallery, the 325-seat Manship Theatre, classrooms, a rooftop sushi restaurant, and a park. Among other collections, the museum includes the largest assemblage of Newcomb Pottery in the United States.The skin of the Shaw Center for the Arts is made of translucent channel glass manufactured in Germany by Glasfabrik Lamberts. The Shaw Center received the American Instutute of Architects Gulf States Honor Award in 2005 for its “aggressive concept with a good contrast of materials” and “effective...
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Old State Capitol
Baton Rouge LA
~25.75 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Louisiana's Old State Capitol Center for Political and Governmental History is the state's official repository of film and video archives and houses several interactive state-of-the-art exhibits.
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USS Kidd/War Museum
Baton Rouge la
~25.77 miles from St. Francisville city center
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USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Kidd was the first US Navy flag officer to die during World War II.The USS KIDD was never modernized and is the only destroyer to retain its World War II appearance; over the years, Kidd has been restored to her August 1945 configuration and armament, culminating on 3 July 1997, when her torpedo tubes were reloaded.The Kidd's special mooring in the Mississippi River is designed to cope with the annual change in river depth, which can be up to forty feet; for half the year she floats in the river, the other half of the year she is dry-docked out of the wate...
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Baton Rouge Convention Center
Baton Rouge LA
~25.88 miles from St. Francisville city center
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The Baton Rouge River Center is a municipally owned multi-purpose 200,000 square feet entertainment facility located on the Mississippi River in downtown Baton Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana.
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Howard Wilkinson Bridge
Baton Rouge LA
~26.16 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Magnolia Mound Plantation House
Baton Rouge LA
~27.09 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Located in Baton Rouge, Magnolia Mound Plantation stands as a fine example of the architectural influences of early settlers from France and the West Indies. One of the earliest buildings in the city of Baton Rouge, the property was owned originally by James Hillen, an early settler who arrived in 1786. On December 23, 1791, John Joyce, from Cork County, Ireland, purchased the property. Here he lived with his wife, Constance Rochon, until he mysteriously drowned in Mobile on May 9, 1798. Constance Rochon Joyce went on to marry Armand Allard Duplantier, a former captain of the continental army under the Marquis de Lafayette and a most influential personality in the city. Several persons owned the property from the time of the Duplantier family to the late 19th century when Mr. Louis Barilli...
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BREC Oak Villa Park
Baton Rouge LA
~27.84 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Pete Maravich Assembly Center
Baton Rouge LA
~27.94 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Pete Maravich Assembly Center is a 13,472-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arena opened in 1972. It is home to the Louisiana State University Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball teams. It was originally known as the LSU Assembly Center, but was renamed in memory of Pete Maravich, a Tiger basketball legend, shortly after his death in 1988. Maravich never played in the arena, but it was his exploits which led LSU to build a larger home for the basketball team, which languished for decades in the shadow of the school's football program.The Assembly Center also hosted the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament in 1988, two months after Maravich's death at age 40 and four months before Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer signed an act to rename the building in Ma...
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Tiger Stadium
Baton Rouge LA
~27.98 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Tiger Stadium (formerly known as Navin Field and Briggs Stadium) was a stadium located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. It hosted the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team from 1912 to 1999, as well as the National Football League's Detroit Lions from 1938 to 1974. It was declared a State of Michigan Historic Site in 1975 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1989. The stadium was nicknamed "The Corner" for its location on Michigan Avenue and Trumbull Avenue. In the decade after the Tigers baseball team vacated the stadium, several rejected redevelopment and preservation efforts finally gave way to demolition. The stadium's demolition was completed on September 21, 2009. There are currently no plans for redevelopment at the site.
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 #19 of 21 Things To Do in St. Francisville
Mall at Cortana
Baton Rouge LA
~28.08 miles from St. Francisville city center
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The Mall at Cortana is a mid-tier shopping mall in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is at the intersection of Airline Hwy. and Florida Blvd.Opening in 1976, it is was one of the top 10 largest malls in the world and still remains the largest mall in the state of Louisiana. It is currently owned and managed by Mall Properties.
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Louisiana NASA Space Consortium
Baton Rouge LA
~28.16 miles from St. Francisville city center
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The Louisiana Space Consortium is a member of a nationwide organization that partners NASA with colleges / universities and other space related institutions to promote scientific research, workforce development, and public outreach to develop and strengthen long-term research capabilities that will make significant contributions to the research and technology Mission Directorates of NASA. In turn, this contributes to the overall research infrastructure, science and technology capabilities, graduate and undergraduate education and economic development of the state. This program is funded by NASA and the Louisiana Board of Regents.
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Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge
~28.67 miles from St. Francisville city center
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Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 near Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy. The current LSU main campus was dedicated in 1926, and consists of more than 250 buildings constructed in the style of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, and occupies a 650-acre (2.6 km²) plateau on the banks of the Mississippi River.LSU is the flagship institution of the Louisiana State University System, and the largest institution of higher education in Louisiana in terms of student enrollment. In 2009, the University enrolled 21,000 undergradu...
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