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urn: urn:us-la:rs:56:1949
citation: "R.S. 56:1949"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 56 › Chapter 9 › Part IV"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1997, number: 705, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
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# Old Perkins Road; designation

The purpose of this Part is to designate a part of the Old Perkins Road in East Baton Rouge Parish and in Ascension Parish as a historic road. It is the intention of the legislature to commemorate this area, once sought after by early landowners for its rich soil; intersected by historic Bayou Manchac, known in its early days as Iberville Bayou; developed as dairy land by the Kleinpeter family who continue to this day to operate the Kleinpeter Dairy on the same location; and original home to the Old Santa Maria Dairy developed on this picturesque Old Perkins Road which began as a main artery to provide a transportation route for early settlers to connect Ascension Parish to the village of Baton Rouge, and which has, with its splendorous flora, retained the beauty reminiscent of an earlier era.