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Hear the compelling history of the Duparc Sugar Plantation & how it was renamed to Laura Plantation. Learn about the construction of Manor House plus the details of this superstructure. Buy tickets!
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Drive Yourself Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage...
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Laura Plantation is a restored historic Louisiana Creole plantation on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Vacherie, Louisiana. [2] Formerly known as Duparc Plantation, it is significant for its early 19th-century Créole-style raised big house and several surviving outbuildings, including two slave cabins.
Drive Yourself Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site Tour. Explore Laura Plantation's Creole History. At Laura: A Creole Plantation (1805), step beyond the myths of the American South and walk in the footsteps of 4 generations of one Louisiana Creole family, both free and enslaved.
Laura stands in the heart of New Orleans Plantation Country. While in the area, enjoy our neighboring attractions and accommodations. Plan your visit to the Best Plantation Tour on the River Road. Enjoy a fully guided experience, with free parking & entrance to the Laura Plantation store.
Laura’s new, permanent exhibit examines in biographical detail the lives of Africans on the plantation, from enslavement into the 20th century. Along the Great River Road only 50 minutes from New Orleans, the fully guided experience includes the Big House, gardens & original 1840s slave cabins.
One of the most intriguing tours along Louisiana’s River Road is offered by Laura: A Creole Plantation and focuses on the white and black Creole families that lived at this place in the nineteenth century.
Explore the captivating histories of two iconic Louisiana plantations on our Laura and Oak Alley tour. At Laura Plantation, delve into rich Creole heritage and resident stories. Then, visit Oak Alley Plantation, with its stunning oak canopy and grand “Big House.”
