Submitted by: Pam Rice & Joyce Rogers Sept.7, 2007

**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************



From Census taken 1820 
EXCERPTS FROM THE NEWSPAPER "REPUBLIC"
BATON ROUGE, LA
1822


April 16, 1822 - Baton Rouge contains at present:

257 white familes					5 hotels
14 black families					1 academy
178 private houses					2 schools
10 new buildings					2 burying grounds	
1 theater						3 drug stores
1 bank							3 brick yards (in addition to those
1 Catholic Church						on the public ground)
1 jail							1 tanners and courier's yard
1 courthouse						2 cabinet makers shops
1 post office						2 saddle shops
2 printing offices 					7 tailors
1 free mason lodge (American)			3 shoemakers
1 free mason lodge (French)				2 barbers
1 she and hat store					2 baker shops and 1 Garrison
45 stores and grocers					1 tinners shop		
2 blacksmith shops					2 watchmakers and silversmith shops



Population of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, La - agreebly to the last census:

Free white males - 3554				Free colored persons - males - 98
Free white females - 2386				Free colored persons - females - 126	
Slaves - males - 2166
Slaves - females - 2004	
Foreigners, soldiers, etc. - 513