Pride, Louisiana

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Pride, Louisiana
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Pride
Coordinates: 30°41′38″N90°58′41″W / 30.69389°N 90.97806°W / 30.69389; -90.97806
Country United States
State Louisiana
Parish East Baton Rouge
Elevation
108 ft (33 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
70770
Area code 225
GNIS feature ID543602 [1]

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

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History

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

Government

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

Education

East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools operates public schools:

Library

[ needs update ] 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 people

References

  1. 1 2 "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.