Baton Rouge, Louisiana (U.S.)

Last modified: 2002-11-02 by rick wyatt
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by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 6 June 2000

• Flag Description

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• Louisiana

This is the most recent flag to be added to the rich history of flags that have flown over "The Capital City on the Mississippi" as the old city flag told all who watched her lime green background, for growth, vitality and fertility of the land. But times change and so do flags. The new Baton Rouge City Flag is a field of crimson representing the great Indian Nations that once inhabited the area.

The flag also keeps symbols of the foreign flags that have flown in her balmy skies.
The Fleur d'Lis of France
The Castle of Spain and
The striped Union Jack of Great Britain.

The City was founded in 1721 and incorporated in 1817, information no longer included on the new flag. Also omitted from the new flag is the Indian headdress and the cypress tree.

Eric Martin, 18 June 1997