River capital: An illustrated history of Baton Rouge Hardcover – 1996 by Mark T Carleton

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Here at last is the first comprehensive, lavishly illustrated history of the community that has been called , in different ages, Istrouma, Baton Rouge, Fort New richmond, Fort San Carlos, and most recently, “Boom Town, U.S.A.”

A crisp , fast-moving narrative tells the 300-year-old story in bold strokes. River Capital is about the first inhabitants, who settled on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi centuries before Iberville “discovered” them for France; those adventurous few whose “concessions” in the wilderness became the basis for a flourishing plantation economy in the early 1800’s; the governors and legislators who have administered Louisiana from the capital city; how farsighted industrialists decided to build the  world’s largest refinery of its kind in 1909; the development of one of the nation’s best-known universities; and how Baton Rouge has responded- and continues to respond- to the rapid changes that have come upon this once quiet community in recent decades. 

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