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Laura and Whitney Plantation Tour with Private Transportation
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
$2,067
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Overview
The Laura and Whitney Plantation Tour with Private Transportation offers an insightful journey through Louisiana's complex history. This small, narrated private tour accommodates groups of up to 13 travelers, providing a unique perspective on the legacy of slavery in America.
- 🚐 Pickup included from selected New Orleans hotels for your convenience.
- 🗣️ An experienced English-speaking tour guide narrates the scenic 90-minute drive, ensuring an engaging experience.
- 🌅 Enjoy a picturesque ride along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, setting the stage for your historical pilgrimage.
- 🌉 Cross the Mississippi River on a high suspended bridge, a highlight of the journey to the plantations.
- 🏛️ At Whitney Plantation, embark on a self-guided audio walking tour at your own pace, exploring slave cabins and memorials.
- 📜 Learn about the stories of enslaved individuals through 14 memorials dedicated to their memory on the plantation grounds.
- 🌳 Visit Laura Plantation to witness the most intact plantation complex in the South, featuring 37 historic buildings.
- 👨👩👧👦 Discover the lives of four generations of Creole owners and their enslaved people during a detailed guided tour at Laura Plantation.
- 🍽️ Snacks and drinks are available for purchase during the tour, though meals are not included.
- ♿ Wheelchair accessible, with all areas and surfaces designed to accommodate guests with mobility needs.
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Laura and Whitney Plantation Tour with Private Transportation
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 6 hours
- Hotel pickup and drop-off (selected hotels only)
- Tour of Laura Plantation (not private)
- Private Transport with Narration
- Tour of Whitney Plantation (self-guided)
- This tour does NOT include a meal. Snacks and drinks available for purchase.
- Gratuities
- This is an off-the-beaten path, away from large tourist crowds, private tour. A 14 passenger tour van and excellent driver/guide pick you up at your New Orleans hotel and narrate the scenic 90-minute drive out of New Orleans. Ride along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain and prepare for a pilgrimage back in time to the Antebellum South. There will be a scenic crossing of the Mississippi River on a high suspended bridge. Then you'll take a short ride upriver to Whitney Plantation's Louisiana Museum of Slavery. (pass by)
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Whitney PlantationOn your self-guided audio walking tour, at your own pace, you will see slave cabins, a freedmen’s church, detached kitchen and a 1790s owner’s house. Learn about the harsh realities & raw historical facts of slavery in pre-Civil War Louisiana. Witness the dark side of American history. Hear narratives and see 14 memorials honoring people enslaved on the grounds of a historical sugar, rice and indigo plantation established in 1752. Visit Whitney Plantation's Museum of Slavery, learn about the lives of people held in bondage for over 100 years.
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Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage SiteA short ride through sugar cane fields brings you to Laura, a Creole Plantation with historic slave quarters surrounded by sugar cane fields. The guided tour transports you with dramatic detail into the lives of four generations of Creole owners and their slaves.
- See the most intact plantation complex in the South with 37 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, including 22 slave cabins in their original double-row configuration under a truly spectacular alley of centuries old oak trees. It is a privately owned, working sugar cane plantation. More than 400 individuals were enslaved at Evergreen Plantation over the course of 150 years. Many were exceptionally skilled, working as long sawyers, coopers, carpenters, blacksmiths, engineers, seamstresses, and domestics. Some could trace their ancestry back multiple generations to the first slaves brought to the plantation. This diverse community was made up of Africans, the enslaved from the American South, and Creoles of Louisiana. (pass by)
- St Jo., built in the 1830’s is one of the few fully intact sugar plantations in the River Parishes. In addition to the Manor Home, this historic site features many outbuildings: original slave cabins, a detached kitchen, blacksmith’s shop, schoolhouse, and chicken coop. Felicity is a sister plantation to St. Joseph. Built in 1845 on one thousand acres of premium farmland, it was a dowry gift from “Valcour” Aime to one of his daughters, Félicité. She married Alexandre Fortier and they had fourteen children. (pass by)
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Laura and Whitney Plantation Tour with Private Transportation
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
$2,067
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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