Central, Louisiana

Edwards Store in 1940.

The store needed room for expansion, so the library closed in 1944.

Alphonsus Catholic School of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, in Greenwell Springs - Established in 1963, its initial enrollment was 131.

The library moved to a 2,604-square-foot (241.9 m2) leased building on April 10, 1972.

The library purchased that building in 1982.

The current library, with 18,263 square feet (1,696.7 m2) of space, opened in June 2002.

== History == Long an unincorporated suburb of Baton Rouge, the citizens of Central voted to incorporate as a city on April 23, 2005, despite opposition from the parish.

Formal elections were held on April 1, 2006, in which voters elected incumbent Watts with 86 percent of the 18,000 votes cast.

On January 9, 2007, Governor Kathleen Blanco appointed the interim members of the new Central Community School Board.

The municipal government's only source of revenue, as of 2015, is a 2% sales tax.

Television station WAFB reported "Central was one of the areas of East Baton Rouge Parish that sustained significant flooding" in the 2016 Louisiana floods.

At the 2019 American Community Survey, the racial and ethnic makeup of the city was 86.9% non-Hispanic white, 8.5% Black and African American, 0.8% Asian, 0.1% some other race, ...

== Demographics == As of the 2020 United States census, there were 29,565 people, 10,233 households, and 7,781 families residing in the city.