Rosedale’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Rosedale. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusRosedale is a village in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 664 in 2020. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 793 to 664 (-16%). Half of its homes were built before 1993.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Rosedale yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Rosedale’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rosedale’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewFloods - Mississippi River Flood, 1927: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Rosedale, decade by decade
1990s
3 historic places in Rosedale
3 places in Rosedale are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Floods - Mississippi River Flood (1927) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.