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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RQG_chellis-mike-chambers_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
He was largely responsible for the idea and fund raising for a live mascot for LSU. The student body, when asked to name the new tiger chanted the name "MIKE!"
Tiger Mike
Mascot
LSU Tigers
Mike is a Bengal Tiger. He stands 7 feet tall, weigh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RCC_battle-of-the-plains-store_Zachary-LA.html
On May 21, 1863, a two-story building near this site housing Young's store and the Plains Masonic Lodge was the center of a battle between Colonel William R. Miles' Legion comprised of Confederate troops from Louisiana and units of General C.C. Au…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RAK_a-national-cemetery-system_Zachary-LA.html
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. Government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RAJ_heroes-of-the-war-on-terrorism_Zachary-LA.html
We will not forget
those who served our
country and gave all...
Greater love hath no man
than this that a man
lay down his life for
his friend...
John 15:13
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RAI_the-former-baptismal-fount_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
From St. Joseph Catherdral. The first baptism recorded here was Juan Josef Trahan, son of Juan Marie Trahan of Morlaix, Britanny, France and Adelaida Tulier of Cherbourg, Normandy, France. He was born June 19, 1793 and baptized Oct. 24, 1793. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RA4_william-bartram-trail_Zachary-LA.html
In 1775, Bartram made a special trip by horseback to "White plains" noting "grassy fields of many miles extent."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R1V_baton-rouge-confederate-monument_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
Erected by the men and women of East and West Baton Rouge to perpetuate the heroism and patriotic devotion of the noble soldiers from the two parishes who wore the gray and crossed the river with their immortal leaders to rest under the shade of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QYK_george-garig_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
This was in 1794-1825 the 800 arpent plantation of George Garig, a German settler from Maryland, "a resident of well nown[sic] honesty and one of the most skillful builders of cotton gins and presses in this territory."
Because families had bee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QYC_highland-cemetery_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
Oldest surviving cemetery in Baton Rouge. Dedicated by George Garig as a burial ground in 1813 and deeded to St. Joseph Roman Catholic Parish in 1819. This cemetery holds the remains of American Revolutionary War soldiers Armand Duplantier and Pie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QXM_march-of-galvez_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
Not far from here is the route taken from Manchac to Baton Rouge by the forces of Bernardo de Galvez in Sept. 1779 in their historic ouster of the British from this territory and the beginning of 30 yrs. of Spanish Domination, 1779-1809. Buried he…