Enjoy the traditional floats, brass bands and dances and celebrate the holiday with family and friends in places to eat, drink and dance.

Come and join over 700 animals from around the world at the Baton Rouge Zoo on Thomas Road. Hilltop Arboretum is home to more than 1,000 cultivated native Louisiana plants, while the Greater Baton Rogue Zoo's 1,800 animals are well worth a visit, including a Louisiana aquarium with native fish and reptiles.

Take the elevator to the 27th floor, from where you can see the city from the observation deck, or zoom out to take a look at the Mississippi River and Baton Rouge Riverfront on the second floor. The museum allows you to view a variety of exhibits, including the Louisiana Museum of Natural History, Louisiana State Museum and Louisiana History Museum. Watch a live performance by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Orchestra, as well as live music from local bands and more.

Baton Rouge is 157 miles upstream from the Gulf of Mexico and has the country's fifth-largest seaport. There are more than 1,000 hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, hotels and restaurants with restaurants and bars.

Baton Rouge also serves as a stopover on the Baghdad Expressway of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Louisiana State Highway System. Although there is no train station in Baton Rouge, there are connections between New Orleans and Hammond. Unlike New York City, New Jersey, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., you can drive to Baton the Rouge from anywhere in eastern Louisiana on I-12, which will take you north of Lake Pontchartrain and bypass New Saints. Like New Orleans, it is a small town with a large number of hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, hotels and restaurants located in the heart of downtown.

An elaborate antebellum house is set on sprawling grounds in the heart of the city, just blocks from the Mississippi River. The living room has a large dining room, kitchen and dining area, as well as a guest bedroom and a guest bathroom.

If you're planning more than a short walk through the park or want to spend more than an hour or two in the museum, visit a great Baton Rouge event. Visit the various shops, entertainment facilities and restaurants and learn and interact with the new kids while spending some time on your own BATON Rouge.

The first regional survey in the early 1980s included Baton Rouge, but relatively little attention was paid to it. Scientists have often focused on what is special in the region, and much has been found in this approach. With the Baton Rouge Folklife Survey I have drawn up a wider net and found a lot. Two of my essays were first published in Louisiana Folklore Miscellany and nearly twenty years later Jocelyn Donlon wrote "Spanish Town Mardi Gras Parades" for the Louisiana Voices Folk Life Education Project.

In the 19th century, the city became a hub for steamship trade and transport, and its population grew steadily. Baton Rouge was incorporated two years later, in 1817, and became the capital of Louisiana State in 1849. The Civil War led Louisiana to join the South and Union forces captured it in 1862. After the war, the seat of government was moved to three other cities and moved to Shreveport, but returned to BATON ROUGE and was again named the capital of Louisiana in 1882. During the Civil War, the population of the town grew steadily and it became the centre of steamship trade and transport during and after the 1860s.

In the 1920s, Standard Oil and Exxon moved their refineries to the banks of the Mississippi, becoming the major employers in Baton Rouge.

Almost overnight, Baton Rouge not only became Louisiana's largest city, but also doubled its population from about 250,000 to more than 500,000. In 2000, more than 1.5 million people were born in East Baton - Rouge Parish, all from abroad. Today, the region has a population of about 2.2 million, or about 3.7 percent of the state's total population.

The people documented reflect the myriad groups that make up Baton Rouge, some of whom have lived here for generations. The First and Second Ancestors report says that more than 1.5 million of the region's 2.2 million residents report their first, second or third ancestors from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Florida and Texas.

Although most of the carriers of the tradition are located in East Baton Rouge Parish, there are also some in the surrounding towns. These include the cities - the parishes of East, West, North, South, Easton and West Lafayette, and the cities of Lafayette and East Lafayette.

The community of East Baton Rouge includes urban, suburban and rural areas, and the Baton-Rouge metropolitan area includes the cities of Lafayette, Lafayette and East Lafayette, as well as the cities of Easton, North, South and West Lafayette. The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of the city - the parishes of West, East, Central, West and South, the city - the Parish of New Iberia and parts of the Parish of St. John the Baptist and the Parish of Lafayette.