Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Baton Rouge came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Baton Rouge in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Baton Rouge. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Baton Rouge data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Baton Rouge:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Baton Rouge is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Baton Rouge. See our Misc Page for Baton Rouge for more information.