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
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 code(s)225
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.
  2. "East Baton Rouge Parish". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  3. Leeper, Clare D'Artois (19 October 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 (1 March 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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