Pride is an unincorporated community in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.[1] Its ZIP code is 70770.
Pride, Louisiana | |
|---|---|
  Pride  Pride | |
| Coordinates: 30°41′38″N 90°58′41″W / 30.69389°N 90.97806°W | |
| 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 ID | 543602[1] |
History
editA post office was established at Pride in 1886.[2] The origin of Pride's name is unknown.[3]
Government and infrastructure
editThe U.S. Postal Service operates the Pride Post Office.[4]
Education
editEast Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools operates public schools:
- Northeast Elementary School[5]
- Northeast Middle School and Northeast High School[6][7]
Library
edit[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 person
editActress Donna Douglas was born in Pride.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b "Pride, Louisiana". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "East Baton Rouge Parish". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Pride." U.S. Postal Service. Retrieved on January 7, 2017. "16524 PRIDE PORT HUDSON RD PRIDE, LA 70770-9203"
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Pride-Chaneyville Branch Library." East Baton Rouge Parish Library. Retrieved on January 7, 2017. "13600 Pride-Port Hudson Rd., Pride, LA 70770"
- ^ 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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