Pride, Louisiana

Pride is an unincorporated community in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.[1] Its ZIP code is 70770.

Pride, Louisiana
Unincorporated community
Pride is located in Louisiana
Pride
Pride
Pride is located in the United States
Pride
Pride
Coordinates: 30°41′38″N 90°58′41″W
CountryUnited States
StateLouisiana
ParishEast Baton Rouge
Elevation
108 ft (33 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
70770
Area code225
GNIS feature ID543602[1]

History

A post office was established at Pride in 1886.[2] The origin of Pride's name is unknown.[3]

Government and infrastructure

The U.S. Postal Service operates the Pride Post Office.[4]

Education

East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools operates public schools:

Library

East Baton Rouge Parish Library operates the Pride-Chaneyville Branch Library. The library first opened in 1941. It was initially located in the gymnasium of Pride High School. The next location was a temporary building on the grounds of Northeast Elementary School, 782 square feet (72.7 m2) large, where it moved in 1983. It moved into its current location, a 12,086-square-foot (1,122.8 m2) standalone building across from the elementary school and adjacent to Northeast High School, on December 12, 2005. This building was designed by Robert Coleman & Partners Architects, AIA. The branch will reopen in February 2017 due to replacement reasons.[8]

Notable person

Actress Donna Douglas was born in Pride.[9]

References
  1. "Pride, Louisiana". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. "East Baton Rouge Parish". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  3. Leeper, Clare D'Artois (October 19, 2012). Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries. LSU Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-8071-4740-5.
  4. "Pride." U.S. Postal Service. Retrieved on January 7, 2017. "16524 PRIDE PORT HUDSON RD PRIDE, LA 70770-9203"
  5. "Elemementary-School-Boundary-Descriptions-15-16.pdf Archived 2017-01-06 at the Wayback Machine." East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on January 6, 2017. Northeast is on page 24 of 41.
  6. "Middle-School-Boundary-Descriptions-15-16.pdf Archived 2017-01-06 at the Wayback Machine." East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on January 6, 2017. Northeast is on page 9 of 14.
  7. "High-School-Boundary-Descriptions-15-16.pdf Archived 2016-04-18 at the Wayback Machine." East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on January 6, 2017. Northeast is on page 7 of 10.
  8. "Pride-Chaneyville Branch Library." East Baton Rouge Parish Library. Retrieved on January 7, 2017. "13600 Pride-Port Hudson Rd., Pride, LA 70770"
  9. Strodder, Chris (March 1, 2007). The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s. Santa Monica Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-59580-986-5.


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