Old Baton Rouge Louisiana

This is slideshow of historic Baton Rouge photos, Links are included at the end to most of these images. The maps are highly detailed when enlarged, I can upload them separataly if requested
A few notes from my research:
Fla Blvd was origainally called Shell Road before it was paved, The shells made it easy for horse drawn carriages to travel on.
Leaving Downtown BR proper North Blvd changed names Jefferson Hwy, (later this section changed Names again to Goverment) it ended at S Acadian. Acadian was then was a short section of Clay Cut. The 2 road maps (one drawn in the late 1800's & one in 1920) are hard overlay
Clay Cut was called clay gut road, when it was discovered it was a path that wild oxen traveled on. Looking at the old hand drawn map lower Clay cut changed names to Hope Villa road at the intersection of Denham Springs Rd (now Old Hammond hwy). Denham Springs Rd was origainally named Bentons Ferry Rd.
Before it was named Perkins Rd it intersected Starring South of the LR&N RR tracks then went to the mouth of Bayou Manchac on the Miss river, Later Perkins was extended to Kleinpeter Ville at Highland Rd crossing. Perkins Rd crossed the RR tracks 5 times before heading S into Ascenion Parish

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