Friday, March 9, 2012
folk lore has it iberville saw a bloody pole and called it red stick|||A little bit of both actually.
Baton Rouge dates back to 1699, when French explorer Sieur d'Iberville leading an exploration party up the Mississippi River saw a reddish cypress pole festooned with bloody animals and fish that marked the boundary between Houma and Bayou Goula tribal hunting grounds. They called the tree "le b芒ton rouge," or red stick. The native name for the site had been Istrouma.
So yeah it got its name from a Red Stick but it was red b/c of the Indian tribes.|||You have this question in the wrong area. LA for you is Louisana. LA for us is Los Angeles. Sorry, we can't answer your question, move it to Louisana instead of Los Angeles|||Its part of history on that, took long time, but that's how it got its name from.
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