The Advocate's All-Metro swimming selections are made by the Baton Rouge-area swimming coaches at the Metro Coaches meeting. Outstanding swimmer: Noah Vargas, Catholic, Jr. Noah Vargas capped off a ...

In July of 1963 a group of activists held a ‘swim-in’ protest in which they attempted to enter the City Park Pool in Baton Rouge to protest segregationist laws. This came after years of African ...

The building that houses Baton Rouge Gallery on Dalrymple Drive in City Park was built in the 1920s as the pool house for a 20,000-square-foot pool described as a public facility. But, in the days ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Baton Rouge ...