“Baton Rouge” in French translates literally to “red stick” in English. Historians argue it either referred to a demarcation line between the hunting grounds of two tribes, a stick used for drying fish and game that had been stained red with blood, the red cypresses that line the bayous or the name the Native Americans referred to the land by, “Istrouma,” which translated roughly to “red stick”.

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