Laura Plantation - Vacherie Landmark

  • Address: 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, LA 70090
  • Phone: 888 / 799-7690
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  • Website:www.lauraplantation.com
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Laura Plantation
2247 Highway 18
Vacherie, LA 70090

Laura Plantation Details

Full Amenity List

  • Wheelchair Accessible

Descriptions from Across the Web

  • Guided tours, based on Laura's Memoirs, detail lives of Creole women, slaves, children. 'Best history tour in U.S.' says Lonely Planet. Built in 1805, the site includes 12 original buildings and slave ... more on VisitBatonRouge.com
  • If you see only one plantation, make it this one. Laura is the very model of a modern plantation -- that is, when you figure that today's crop is tourism, not sugar cane or indigo. And it's all thanks to the vision of developer and general manager Norman Marmillion, who was determined to make thi... more on Frommers
  • Laura Plantation is a historic plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana on the West Bank of the Mississippi River near Vacherie, Louisiana Originally known as DuParc, the planation was established in 1755, and the current plantation house built in 1805 by a French Creole family. It continued fun... more on En.wikipedia.org

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5.0
Nanette L. 's review

Built in 1805, this sugar plantation tour gives you a look and feel of what life was like back then. This tour is based on the memoirs of a Creole plantation ... a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

Directions

From Vacherie, LA - Head north on LA-20 toward LA-18, Turn right at LA-18 located on River Road midway between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

Hours

Daily 10am-4pm. Last tour begins at 4pm

Other Web Resources

  • www.lauraplantation.com
  • http://www.visitbatonrouge.com

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