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I've noticed a flag which appears behind upstanding councillors, etc. (e.g.,
at
http://www.wbrcouncil.org/contacts/bios.asp) along with the S&S and LA state
flag. I guess West Baton Rouge has a 'regular' parish flag as well, but I
haven't found a good image of it.
André Coutanche, 23 April
2008
West Baton Rouge parish in Louisiana, USA, last year (2007) celebrated its
bicentennial. For that occasion a flag was created - white with bicentennial
parish logo on it and some lettering below (which I can't read - maybe someone
with better eyes - it seems the last word is "years"). It is shown on a photo at
http://www.westbatonrougemuseum.com/bicentennial.htm. On the same page a
short history of the creation of the parish:
"On March 14, 1699,
Iberville and Bienville arrived in the "Bayagoula nation," where the Bayougoula
Indians inhabited the country west of the Mississippi River near Bayou Manchac.
The parish's original 600 square miles were bordered by the Mississippi,
Atchafalaya, and False rivers with a boundary across from Bayou Manchac. In
1717, the French Company of the West began issuing land grants in the Territory
of Louisiana. The next large group of immigrants were Acadian refugees who
settled there in the latter part of the 18th century. On March 31, 1807,
Governor William C. C. Claiborne approved a measure dividing the Territory of
Orleans into19 parishes. The eleventh of the 19 was named Baton Rouge, which is
now West Baton Rouge Parish. The first parish courthouse was established in St.
Michel, now present day Port Allen. In 1812 when the State of Louisiana was
admitted into the Union, the Parish of Baton Rouge became West Baton Rouge
Parish and the land directly to the east across the Mississippi River became
East Baton Rouge Parish."
The logo is also shown on the first page of
this PDF document:
http://www.wbrcouncil.org/Files/Newsletter/VisionWestsmall-Jan.2007.pdf.
Valentin Poposki, 23 April 2008