re: LSU should have chose the bluffs in NBR

quote:

---

it's A bluff.

---

And that bluff is where in 1698 French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville saw the famous red cypress tree marking the boundary between the Houma and Bayogoula tribal hunting grounds.

He called it "le bâton rouge", French for "the red stick."

So, the location of Baton Rouge began on the bluff that is now occupied by Southern University.

This concludes our history lesson for today. There will be a written quiz on it tomorrow.