Laura Plantation: Louisiana Creole Heritage Site The Louisiana River Parishes are home to a number of plantations, many of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Magnolia Mound Plantation House is a place where visitors can step into history to get a glimpse of Louisiana’s colonial period. According to a National Register of ...

We didn’t tour all the plantations, for there are too many to visit during such a short trip. However, we did visit five of 10 plantations included in New Orleans Plantation Country. Each is located ...

WALLACE, La. — The Whitney Plantation is the only plantation museum in Louisiana to focus on the history of slavery. For Courtni Waguespack, a tour guide at the St. John the Baptist Parish museum, ...

Along Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Laura Plantation's 200-year-old manor house — devastated by fire 29 months ago — has been rebuilt utilizing more than 35,000 board ...

As Confederate statues fall, NASCAR and the U.S. Marine Corps ban the display of the rebel flag and even the country group Lady Antebellum changes its name, another reminder of one of the darkest ...

The $5 tour began with a short film that told of Chopin's early life in high society in St. Louis before she married and moved to Louisiana, where she lived in the house from 1879-84. "Cloutierville ...

As a live-event painter, Kristen Schenck works at weddings, birthday parties and other celebrations, while surrounded by revelers. But with social gatherings either postponed or greatly scaled-down ...

LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show the newly acquired Woodland Plantation House near the banks of the Mississippi River. “We have still a lot of work to do, but I think for the home to be ...