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Oak Alley Plantation
Plantation Tours
Please see specific plantation descriptions to help you make your tour choice. We believe Oak Alley, Laura, Evergreen, San Francisco,Destrehan, and Houmas House are the best of the plantations,and all are located within one hour of New Orleans.We will be glad to arrange other plantations but be aware you may spend two hours each way (4 hrs total travel time) to reach Nottoway and Madewood, as one example. Tour prices include all house entrance fees. |
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Our most popular plantation combination tour.( scroll down to see full Oak Alley description.)
Located on the Mississippi River between the historic cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Oak Alley Plantation has been called the "Grande Dame" of the Great River Road. Nowhere else in the South will you find such a spectacular setting! The quarter-mile canopy of giant live oak trees, believed to be nearly 300 years old, forms an impressive avenue leading to the classic Greek-revival style antebellum home.
Have your passport ready to enter the Creole world of Louisiana at Laura Plantation, an historic sugar plantation built in 1805. The one hour tour is based upon 5,000 pages of French documents and upon Laura's "Memories of the Old Plantation Home ", dramatically detailing 250 years of true-life stories of Creole women, slaves and children.
Laura is surrounded by fields of sugarcane and boasts 11 historic buildings on the National Register, including slave cabins where the West-African folktales of Compair Lapin (later known as Br'er Rabbit) were recorded over 125 years ago.
Laura is an example of raised architecture, see picture below.
Structure under Laura Plantation building.
Before restoration
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$55.00 |
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Oak Alley Plantation
Laura Plantation
Laura's historic outbuildings
Side view
Sugarcane fields
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6 Hours from hotel pick up to return
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Located on the Mississippi River between the historic cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Oak Alley Plantation has been called the "Grande Dame" of the Great River Road. Nowhere else in the South will you find such a spectacular setting! The quarter-mile canopy of giant live oak trees, believed to be nearly 300 years old, forms an impressive avenue leading to the classic Greek-revival style antebellum home.
The mansion on the plantation was built between 1837and 1839 for a French Creole sugar planter Jacques Telesphore Roman. Jacques Telesphore Roman's father-in-law, Joseph Pilie, was an architect and is considered the likely designer.The trees predate the house by some 100 years, no one knows who planted them.
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$30.00 |
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4 hours from hotel pick-up to return.
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| San Francisco and Oak Alley |
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Enjoy two of the most beautiful plantations in this popular combination tour. See Oak Alley description above.
On the banks of the Mississippi River, less than 40 minutes from New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Hammond, and Houma, stands one of the most remarkable examples of mid-Nineteenth Century architecture in the state of Louisiana – San Francisco Plantation House. Built in 1856 by Edmond Bozonier Marmillion, the house was originally named St. Frusquin, a name derived from the French slang term, sans Fruscins, meaning "without a penny in my pocket", a reference to its high cost.
In 1870 Achille D. Bougere purchased the plantation and gave it the name of San Francisco.
A 2 million-dollar restoration was completed in 1977. During the restoration the house was painstakingly restored to its original splendor, making it the only authentically restored plantation house in Louisiana. San Francisco is known for the intricate and beautiful decorative painting of its interior rooms, by Italian artisans.
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San Francisco Plantation
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51/2 hours from hotel pick-up to return
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| Destrehan Plantation |
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On the banks of the Great Mississippi River, only minutes upstream from historic New Orleans, Louisiana, stands beautiful Destrehan Plantation.
In 1787, Robin deLogny entered into a contract with Charles, a free mulatto, to build a French Colonial style plantation house. It took three years to build the house, everything being hewn and sanded by hand.
Established in 1787, Destrehan is the oldest documented plantation home in the lower Mississippi Valley, and has survived colonial and civil wars, not to mention the perils of time.
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3 1/2 hours from hotel pick-up to return
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| Houmas House |
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Houmas Plantation was a tract of land along the Mississippi River purchased from the Houmas Indians in colonial times by Maurice Conway and Alexandre Latil. It was Latil who built the rear house in the late 1700s, with characteristics of both Spanish and rural French architecture.The magnificent Greek Revival Mansion was built in 1840 by John Smith Preston and his wife, Caroline. Her father, Revolutionary war hero General Wade Hampton of South Carolina, had bought theproperty in 1812.
Today, through the work of owner Kevin Kelly, Houmas House has reclaimed its position as crown jewel of Lousiana's River Road, and features 12 acres of gardens.
Houmas house tours are a little more expensive due to the extensive and lavish interior restoration,plus the gardens.
Houmas House from above
Latil's Landing is open for lunch and dinner on the plantation grounds.We will be glad to help with reservations if wanted.
See more restaurant details below
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Houmas House Plantation
Houmas House Plantation and Gardens
View of the Garconniere
Gentlemens parlor
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We offer Houmas House as a private tour. Hotel pick-up time is your choice.This tour could be done in as little as 4 hours, or you are welcome to spend the day.Tour prices are reasonable,please call for more information.
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| Houmas House and San Francisco |
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Experience two of the most spectacular plantations Lousiana has to offer. Lunch and dinner are available at Houmas House's award winning restaurant Latil's Landing.
The French House, built in the 1770's by Alexander Latil, and now the rear wing of the Houmas House Mansion is set for your dining experience. The 230 year old house, complete with original beamed ceilings, cypress mantels, wood burning fireplaces, and original wood floors, is set between the Garden Carriageway and the Hampton Fountain and Gardens. Along with a museum quality collection of art and artifacts, your dining experience will be accented by French Limoge china and dinner service, replicated from the originals of Houmas House, first created for Wade Hampton in the 1830's.
San Francisco Plantation
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San Francisco Plantation
Houmas House Plantation
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This plantation combination is available as a private tour only.Tour duration and hotel pick-up times are your choice,please call for more information.Very reasonable prices.
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| Evergreen and Oak alley |
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This tour visits both Oak Alley Plantation ( see description above) and Evergreen
Evergreen Plantation is the most intact plantation complex in the South with 37 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, including 22 slave cabins.
Evergreen has its country's highest historic designation and joins Mount Vernon and Gettysburg in being granted landmark status for its agricultural acreage.
Today, Evergreen Plantation remains a privately owned, working sugar cane plantation. People live here and work here. Evergreen Plantation is located on the Mississippi River, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge in the Parish of St. John the Baptist, Louisiana
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Historic sugarcane fields
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Evergreen Plantation
Evergreen kitchen
Slave cabins at Evergreen
Oak alley
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About 6 hours from hotel pick-up to return.
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| Oak Alley Nottoway and Madewood |
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At the edge of sugar cane fields, Nottoway stands overlooking the Mississippi River. This enormous mansion, completed in 1859, reflects an unusual combination. Greek revival architectural elements blend with innovations that were the fanciful desires of the original owner.
This tour is for those who have the time and interest to explore the plantations 2 hours upriver from New Orleans,it also features Oak Alley,and Madewood Plantation, circa 1846.Lunch in Madewood's beautiful dining room is included
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Nottoway Ballroom
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Oak Alley
Nottoway
Madewood
Madewood dining room
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Available as a private tour,please call for more information.
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Allow about 8 hours from hotel pick-up to return
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Cancellation policy
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