- Laura Plantation: Louisiana’s Creole Heritage Site - The drive out to Oak Alley Plantation is about 70 minutes.Once arriving at Plantation #1 between 9:45 AM and 10:00 AM your tour will begin. You will have approximately 2 hours at each plantation. Will then take a short 15 min drive down to plantation #2 where you will also have approximately 2 hours. All tours provide on site Tour Guides. There will be also time for self guided tours of the grounds. We will also provide you with an opportunity for lunch at Oak Alley cafe in between tours
- Air conditioning onboard
The 2 plantation journey enables you to witness the unique attributes and stories of each plantation. The grandeur of antebellum existence in the 1800s is evident at Oak Alley with its impressive estate and 28 picturesque Oak trees.
Starting its operations in 1805, Laura plantation, with its West-African roots, began with 7 slaves (comprising of six-west Africans and one Amerindian). Along with the plantation’s expansion, the count of enslaved labor increased. The plantation presently has four original slave cabins dating back to the 1840s. With the breakout of the Civil War, 186 workers were enslaved on these lands. Post the liberation of slaves in Louisiana in 1866, a majority of these emancipated individuals chose to continue residing at the Laura Plantation quarters. These individuals saw a mass displacement in 1895, when cypress lumber firms introduced their own workforce to occupy the Laura slave quarters, which remained inhabited till 1977. There are descendants of these slaves who still reside in the vicinity of the Laura Plantation.
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