History

Quiet, attractive subdivision beginning in 1993 with its first filing. It is located off Perkins Road and has historical significance to Baton Rouge. The neighborhood was pastureland until its development. The common entrance to the neighborhood has an oak tree that is over 300 years old. The neighborhood has named the oak tree "Oakridge Sentinel". Prior to the subdivision’s development, the site by the oak tree also had a circa 1800 cypress house that had to be demolished. But an old cistern remained as evidence of the house until it was removed in 2013 and donated to the LSU Rural Life Museum.