JOHN JAMES AUDUBON BRIDGE HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE M N O P Q R S T U Y Z V W X Z1 NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY MISSISSIPPI WELCOME CENTER LOUISIANA WELCOME CENTER TANGIPAHOA VISITOR CENTER IBERVILLE VISITOR CENTER ST. JAMES VISITOR CENTER Z2 ASCENSION PARISH TOURISM COMMISSION Zachary Historic Villiage GROSSE TETE PLAQUEMINE VACHERIE GONZALES LAPLACE NAPOLEONVILLE MADEWOOD PLANTATION WHITNEY PLANTATION EXIT #194 EXIT #220 THIBODAUX HOUMA BOCAGE SORRENTO ZACHARY Visit Baton Rouge 359 Third Street Baton Rouge, LA 70801 225-383-1825 800-LA ROUGE www.visitbatonrouge.com Ascension Parish Tourist Commission 6967 Highway 22 Sorrento, LA 70778 888-775-7990 http://tourascension.com East Feliciana Tourist Commission 1752 High Street Jackson, LA 70748 225-634-7155 www.felicianatourism.org Iberville Parish Tourist Commission 57735 Main Street Plaquemine, LA 70764 225-687-2642 www.ibervilleparish.com Natchez Visitors Reception Center 640 South Canal Street, Box C Natchez, MS 39120 601-446-6345 800-647-6724 www.visitnatchez.com Pointe Coupee Parish Museum & Tourist Center 8348 False River Road New Roads, LA 70760 225-638-7788 225-638-3998 www.lapage.com/parishes/pcoup.htm New Orleans Plantation Country 2900 Hwy. 51 LaPlace, LA 70068 985-359-2562 866-204-7782 www.neworleansplantationcountry.com St. James Parish Welcome Center 1094 U.S. 61 Gramercy, LA 70052 225-562-2525 800-367-7852 www.stjamesla.com Tangipahoa Parish Convention and Visitors Bureau 13143 Wardline Road Hammond, LA 70401 1-800-542-7520 985-542-7520 www.tangitourism.com U.S. 61 Louisiana Welcome Center 14869 US Highway 61 St. Francisville, LA 70775 225-635-6962 U.S. 84 Louisiana Welcome Center/Vidalia 1401 Carter Street Vidalia, LA 71371 318-336-7008 West Baton Rouge Tourist Commission 2750 North Westport Drive Port Allen, LA 70767 225-344-2920 800-654-9701 www.westbatonrouge.net West Feliciana Parish Tourist Commission, West Feliciana Historical Society 11757 Ferdinand Street St. Francisville, LA 70775 225-635-4224 800-789-4221 www.stfrancisville.us TOURIST INFORMATION CENTERS plantations/legend LOUISIANA ATTRACTIONS RELATED ATTRACTIONS A Audubon State Historic Site Oakley House B Bocage Plantation C Butler Greenwood Plantation D Catalpa Plantation E Cottage Plantation F Destrehan Plantation G Evergreen Plantation H Frogmore Plantation & Cotten Gin I Greenwood Plantation J Houmas House Plantation & Garden K Laura Plantation L LaBranche Plantation M Madewood Plantation N Magnolia Mound Plantation O Melrose Plantation P Milbank Historic House Q Mon Reve R The Myrtles Plantation S Nottaway Plantation Restaurant & Inn T Oak Alley Plantation Restaurant & Inn U Ormond Plantation V Parlange W Pointe Coupee Bed & Breakfast The Samson House X Rosedown Plantation Y San Francisco Plantation Z St. Emma Plantation Z1 St. Joseph Plantation Z2 Whitney Plantation 2A Afton Villa Gardens 2B The Aillet House & Allendale Plantation Slave Cabins at West Baton Rouge Museum 2C The Cabin Restaurant 2D Centenary State Historic Site 2E Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum at Angola 2F LSU Rural Life Museum at Burden Museum & Gardens 2G Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site 2H Port Hudson State Historic Site 2I Pointe Coupee Historical Society/ Poydras Museum and Art Center 2J Pointe Coupee Museum 2K Pond Store 2L Republic of West Florida Historical Museum 2M River Road African American Museum & Gallery 2N Rosemont Plantation 2O West Feliciana Historical Society Museum 2P Wilkinson County Oak Alley Melrose Magnolia Mound Butler Greenwood Rosedown Laura
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JOHN JAMESAUDUBON
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NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY
MISSISSIPPI WELCOME CENTER
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TANGIPAHOAVISITOR CENTER
IBERVILLEVISITORCENTER
ST. JAMESVISITORCENTER
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ASCENSION PARISHTOURISM COMMISSION
ZacharyHistoric VilliageGROSSE
TETE
PLAQUEMINE
VACHERIE
GONZALES
LAPLACE
NAPOLEONVILLE
MADEWOODPLANTATION
WHITNEYPLANTATION
EXIT #194
EXIT #220
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BOCAGE
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ZACHARY
Visit Baton Rouge 359 Third Street Baton Rouge, LA 70801 225-383-1825 800-LA ROUGE www.visitbatonrouge.com
East Feliciana Tourist Commission 1752 High Street Jackson, LA 70748 225-634-7155 www.felicianatourism.org
Iberville Parish Tourist Commission 57735 Main Street Plaquemine, LA 70764 225-687-2642 www.ibervilleparish.com
Natchez Visitors Reception Center 640 South Canal Street, Box C Natchez, MS 39120 601-446-6345 800-647-6724 www.visitnatchez.com
Pointe Coupee Parish Museum & Tourist Center 8348 False River Road New Roads, LA 70760 225-638-7788 225-638-3998 www.lapage.com/parishes/pcoup.htm
New Orleans Plantation Country 2900 Hwy. 51 LaPlace, LA 70068 985-359-2562 866-204-7782 www.neworleansplantationcountry.com
St. James Parish Welcome Center 1094 U.S. 61 Gramercy, LA 70052 225-562-2525 800-367-7852 www.stjamesla.com
Tangipahoa Parish Convention and Visitors Bureau 13143 Wardline Road Hammond, LA 70401 1-800-542-7520 985-542-7520 www.tangitourism.com
U.S. 61 Louisiana Welcome Center 14869 US Highway 61 St. Francisville, LA 70775 225-635-6962
U.S. 84 Louisiana Welcome Center/Vidalia 1401 Carter Street Vidalia, LA 71371 318-336-7008
West Baton Rouge Tourist Commission 2750 North Westport Drive Port Allen, LA 70767 225-344-2920 800-654-9701 www.westbatonrouge.net
West Feliciana Parish Tourist Commission, West Feliciana Historical Society 11757 Ferdinand Street St. Francisville, LA 70775 225-635-4224 800-789-4221 www.stfrancisville.us
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plantations/legendLOUISIANA ATTRACTIONS RELATED ATTRACTIONS
Stanton Hall401 High @ Pearl Street, Natchez, MS 39120www.stantonhall.com 1-601-442-6282 Monday-Sunday, 9am - 4pm • • • • • • •
Start your journey in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, also referred to as Plantation Country, where visitors can experience the state’s deep and colorful history told through the area’s historical architecture and rich countryside. Visitors and locals alike tour these elaborate and beautiful antebellum mansions experiencing what life was like at these domestic centers of massive cotton, sugar cane and rice plantations.
Visiting plantations along the Mississippi River is both a historical and cultural journey back to this area’s diverse heritage. The architecture reflects the impact of the many different colonists and settlers who made this land their own.
As you tour plantations along the Mississippi between New Orleans and Natchez you’ll see homes influenced by the West Indies plantations, English manor houses, Georgian style, Spanish, Creole and Acadian building styles. You will even see an extraordinary example of an elaborate design called “Steamboat Gothic.”
And then there are the great homes of the Greek Revival period, build just before the Civil War. Planters competed with each other to see who could build the grandest home. If these homes look familiar, don’t be surprised. Many have been used in movies.
The size and splendor of a house depended on the builder’s financial means. This was especially true because once a home was build, it had to be furnished and most fine furnishing had to be shipped from New York and New England or imported from Europe, which was costly.
Often times, when a couple completed building their plantation home, they would travel to Europe for a year or two to select furnishings.
Plantations have a number of curious features that reflect their full purpose. The “belvedere” is a walk located on
the plantation home’s roof. It presents a view of the vast plantation fields as well as the river so the family could watch for steamboats and other river traffic.
Since plantations were rural and often quite isolated, the river was very important. Not only was it a means of transporting goods to market and receiving supplies, it also provided news of the outside world, both near and far. Plantation inhabitants would eagerly await the sound of the calliope that announced an approaching steamboat. Many of the plantations have a “garçonniere,” a name that comes from the French word “garçon” which means boy or young man. At a certain age, young men were sent to sleep in a separate building called the “garçonniere.” Needless to say, these quarters were usually much livelier than the main house.
Town HomesEach winter, the plantation owner took his family from the isolation of the countryside into town for the “social season.” This exciting time of year centered the family’s “town home” which was usually a mansion often time on the scale of the plantation home itself. You will see examples of these magnificent building in Natchez.
Plantation Home ToursThe spectacular plantation exteriors are matched by equally grand interiors that offer great insight into how people lived before the Civil War. Most tours take about an hour and are given by costumed guides each of whom has their favorite stories about the plantation and its builders. Individual house tours usually cost between $5 and $20. Annual pilgrimages held each spring in St. Francisville, and Natchez offer an excellent way to see a group of homes for a fee. These pilgrimages frequently include plantation used as private homes and not usually open to the public.
dunleith the myrtles
san francisco poplar grove oakley
Touring the Plantations Along the Mississippia j o u r n e y c o m b i n i n g b o t h c u l t u r e a n d h i s t o r y
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P l a n t a t i o n l i s t i n g s Mississippi
P l a n t a t i o n l i s t i n g s Louisiana
NAME ADDRESS PHONE #’S HOURS COST
2AAfton Villa Gardens US Hwy 61, St. Francisville, LA 70775
2P Zachary Historic Village 4524 Virginia Street, Zachary, LA 70791www.cityofzachary.org/historicdistrict.html
1-225-654-1912 Call for Details Call for Details
Note: All information was supplied by individual properties and tourist commissions. Although every effort was made to ensure accuracy, Visit Baton Rouge cannot guarantee exact locations on map, listed rates or other information. Visit or contact tourist information centers for detailed maps, alternate routes or up-to-date rates.