Laura Plantation Tour
Laura stands in the heart of New Orleans Plantation Country, an historic farm, surrounded by fields of sugarcane, where you will find the difference that exemplifies Creole Louisiana.
The guided tour lasts 70 minutes, and you will be exposed to compelling, real-life accounts of generations of owners, women, slaves and children who called this typical Creole sugarcane farm their home.
The guided tour is based upon 5,000 pages of documents related to this plantation discovered in the Archives Nationales in Paris.
- Availability: Daily
- Duration: 5 hours
- Tour Times: 8:30 AM & 12:30 PM;
- Tour Return: 2:00 PM & 5:30 PM
- Price:
- Adult: $50
- Child (3-12): $35
- Prices include transportation
Guided tour of the newly restored Big House, its raised basement and galleries, men’s and women’s parlors, service rooms and common rooms.
A guided tour of the 200-year-old sugar plantation homestead with a visit into the 3 gardens.
A guided tour inside one of the slave cabins, built in 1840, where the ancient west-African tales of Compair Lapin, better known in English as “Br’er Rabbit,” were recorded.
On the grounds are 12 buildings on the National Register, including animal barns, overseers’ cottages and the 1829 Maison de Reprise.