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Port Allen is a city in, and the parish seat of, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States. Located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, it is bordered by Interstate 10 and US Highway 190. The population was 5,180 at the 2010 census, down from 5,278 in 2000. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Port Allen is home to the Mississippi Riverfront Development, which provides a panoramic view of the Mississippi River and Baton Rouge, the West Baton Rouge Museum, the City of Port Allen Railroad Depot, Scott’s Cemetery, the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, and the Port Allen Lock.

Port Allen city overview:
Name:	Port Allen city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Louisiana
County:	West Baton Rouge Parish
Incorporated:	1916
Elevation:	26 ft (8 m)
Total Area:	3.33 sq mi (8.62 km²)
Land Area:	2.83 sq mi (7.34 km²)
Water Area:	0.49 sq mi (1.28 km²)
Total Population:	4,939
Population Density:	1,742.15/sq mi (672.66/km²)
ZIP code:	70767
Area code:	225
FIPS code:	2261790
Website:	www.portallen.org

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History

Pre-history

The village of La Ville De St. Michel or San Miguel (1790–1817) had existed in a nearby location to what is now the city of Port Allen. Around the 1850s, a new community had started around the same location and went by the name Town of West Baton Rouge.

Founding of Port Allen

The city of Port Allen was founded in 1878. The name Port Allen is in honor of Henry Watkins Allen, a member of the American Confederate States Army and the 17th Governor of Louisiana. Allen was instrumental in the early years of the village, prior to the founding of the city, he had owned a slave-worked sugar plantation in town he had started in 1855, the Allendale Plantation, and he created his own railroad that ran through the village.

Nearby Sunrise

Around 1878, a former slave named Alex Banes was creating a small community called Sunrise, which existed just north of what is now Port Allen. Many of the inhabitants of Sunrise worked at the railroad Anchorage Depot, by 1900 the depot had been moved taking much of the communities population with it. In 1918, Sunrise had a fire that destroyed much of the town and businesses, and as a result the area integrated into the neighboring town, which by then was known as Port Allen.

Industrialization and growth

By 1916, the city had incorporated. On August 10, 1940, the Huey P. Long Bridge at U.S. Route 190 was unveiled, which joined the east and west parishes, and shaping the city towards and aiding commerce and industries. Over time there was economic shifts away from agricultural and towards industrial, and in the 1950s factories and manufacturing plants were built in town. In 1963, the town population reached 5,000 and it was renamed as a city.

For many years the city was racially segregated.

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Geography

Port Allen is located at 30°27′13″N 91°12′36″W / 30.45361°N 91.21000°W / 30.45361; -91.21000 (30.453740, −91.209957).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.8 km), of which 2.1 square miles (5.5 km) is land and 0.5 square mile (1.3 km) (19.39%) is water. The city is adjacent to the Mississippi River, which passes to the east side of the city.