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re: Baton Rouge Underground Tunnels (Not LSU or Hilton)
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:46 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:46 pm to fightin tigers
That's a steal
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Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:50 pm to fightin tigers
Listed an an EXTREME FLOOD HAZARD 
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:55 pm to Shexter
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They were part of the old Baton Rouge subway.
BR should've learned back then that people in this town just don't ride public transportation. Should've run more studies, I suppose.
Well, on a serious sidenote, BR once had a streetcar system just like New Orleans...
You can guess what happened to it in a town that came to be owned by refineries.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:12 pm to Lee B
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Baton Rouge once had a streetcar system, operating from 1890 to 1936. It began with mule-drawn cars and was later electrified. The system eventually declined due to the rise of automobiles and buses, and the last line was closed in 1936.
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Look to the median on East Boulevard for proof.
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Even three lines, 18 streetcars, and a peak of more than 3 million annual passengers couldn’t thwart inevitable overtaking by buses and cars. By the end of April 1936, all of the streetcars were gone, with the last having rolled April 23 on the City Belt line.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:25 pm to Shexter
That map is a trip to try to make sense of, now...
"University Lake" is now Capitol Lake... LSU moved to its present location, and the new State Capitol and new Governor's Mansion took over that area.
So that's from... 1880?
"University Lake" is now Capitol Lake... LSU moved to its present location, and the new State Capitol and new Governor's Mansion took over that area.
So that's from... 1880?
This post was edited on 7/8/25 at 4:34 pm
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:29 pm to Lee B
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"University Lake" is now Capitol Lake...
They definitely reshaped that lake.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:52 pm to Shexter
I wonder if the section on the right was filled in to make way for the interstate or before?
I honestly don't know if that upper tip on the left is just a wooded marsh, now.
There's a weird "hidden" upscale neighborhood visible behind the Governor's Mansion on the lake and that other part that's now cut off into its own lake (to the left of the DOTD building). Some one took me to a party there years ago... it's probably gated at this point. It was weird because to get there you drive through an industrial warehouse area that's kind of scary (at least a night) and is part of the Choctaw area... then houses, some older and mid-century modern, some newish.. some huge. I guess you can get there through the DOTD side road, too, and that's just the route we took that day... but I'd never noticed the houses across the lake.
I honestly don't know if that upper tip on the left is just a wooded marsh, now.
There's a weird "hidden" upscale neighborhood visible behind the Governor's Mansion on the lake and that other part that's now cut off into its own lake (to the left of the DOTD building). Some one took me to a party there years ago... it's probably gated at this point. It was weird because to get there you drive through an industrial warehouse area that's kind of scary (at least a night) and is part of the Choctaw area... then houses, some older and mid-century modern, some newish.. some huge. I guess you can get there through the DOTD side road, too, and that's just the route we took that day... but I'd never noticed the houses across the lake.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 9:17 pm to Lee B
Randy Haynie owns half that neighborhood. One of the houses is owned by the police union, another by O&G lobbyists (the old Jimmie Davis house). My MiL lives back there. It's a weird little pocket.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 10:25 pm to BottomlandBrew
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Randy Haynie owns half that neighborhood. One of the houses is owned by the police union, another by O&G lobbyists (the old Jimmie Davis house). My MiL lives back there. It's a weird little pocket.
When I went there (maybe 35 years ago, now that I think about it) I was told that most of the houses were owned by lobbyists, etc., or rented to them.
I also looked it up on Zillow, and Google Street view a couple of hours ago out of curiosity... I don't think those are the same houses for the most part that were there at the time. They were decidedly 1950s and 1960s houses, mostly, kind of dated at the time but nice. Some were probably updated but there seems to have been some teardowns/rebuilds... and the empty lots... just teardowns in some cases?
Posted on 7/9/25 at 12:57 am to Lee B
Bayou Duplantier, not Duplanier. It has been misspelled on Google forever. But the other Duplantier’s like Duplantier Trace are correct.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 1:02 am to Shexter
I’m all for some urban exploration…but tunnels under BR? I’m out.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 6:53 am to Shexter
I knew about the house over the canal thing. It was always weird to me.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 7:24 am to Shexter
How am I just finding out about this? Thanks OP
Posted on 7/9/25 at 8:23 am to FieldEngineer
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by FieldEngineerPretty wild how that house just straddles the canal.
It’s right there adjacent to the old school for the deaf.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 8:56 am to Shexter
You can still see evidence of the old street car track on East Blvd in Baton Rouge. Looks like they ran right where the bike path and median is now. The tracks are still visible where there is a break in the median.
This post was edited on 7/9/25 at 9:02 am
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