Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in Louisiana, U.S., a French translation of Choctaw itti homma "red pole," perhaps in reference to a painted boundary marker.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 97388
Land area (2000): 76.844394 sq. miles (199.026058 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.217809 sq. miles (5.744099 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 79.062203 sq. miles (204.770157 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05000
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 30.458090 N, 91.140229 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 70801 70802 70805 70806 70808 70809
70818 70819 70820
Headwords:
Baton Rouge
Wikipedia
Baton Rouge may refer to:
Bâton Rouge Steakhouse & Bar is a Canadian restaurant chain, famous for their baby back ribs, Sterling Silver steaks, and grilled catch of the day. It was founded in Laval, Quebec in 1992. There are 29 Bâton Rouges in Canada as of 2010 mainly in Quebec (Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke) and Ontario (Greater Toronto Area, Ottawa) with sites ranging from 7000 to . The first restaurant is located at the Carrefour Laval.
The restaurant chain is now owned by Imvescor Restaurant Group Inc. (formerly known as Imvescor Inc. / Pizza Delight Corporation Ltd.) based in Moncton. They also own Mikes Restaurants and Scores.
The first Bâton Rouge restaurant in Alberta was opened in July 2010 in Quarry Park, Calgary; closed in 2012, it reopened in 2013. There is also a location in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Baton Rouge were an American hard rock band, formed in 1986 in Pearl River, Louisiana. The band produced two albums and enjoyed limited success during the final part of the hair metal explosion in the early 1990s, before disbanding. All the band members went on to work with other hard rock recording artists and in particular vocalist and guitarist Kelly Keeling performed with Michael Schenker Group and Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Bâton Rouge is a 1985 French film directed by Rachid Bouchareb.
Usage examples of "baton rouge".
A state cop from Baton Rouge tried to put Berry in a restraint hold, but Joe Pike moved between them and whispered something in the state cop's ear and the state cop walked away.
I was in Barcelona at the time and I called Etienne and told him to retrieve the skeletons and meet me at Sarah Bayou near Baton Rouge.
Maybe he could convince her to move to Baton Rouge, or even any of the small towns around Prescott.
And she was in Baton Rouge with Galen, who was helping her, making those damn dinners, talking to her, sharing.
We began our search above Free Negro Point at Mulatto Bend Landing (they have rather odd names for places along the river), four miles north of Baton Rouge.
I would hear that my mother worked in the back of a laundry with colored women in Baton Rouge, that Mack died of tuberculosis, that she married a man who operated carnival rides.
I've had to send to Baton Rouge for acertified copy of my birth certificate, and for some weirdreason, I'm having a hell of a time getting it.
I've never been in Baton Rouge and never so much as touched a streetcorner girl, and we both knew it.