8345 US Highway 61
St. Francisville, LA
(225) 635-6312
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*114 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

History
A veritable treasure-trove of family heirlooms and historic artifacts, Butler Greenwood has never been sold out of the original family and probably contains more original furnishings, clothing, silver and porcelains, portraits and other period objects than any other antebellum home open for touring in the state of Louisiana, made all the more interesting by the fact that the tours through the house are conducted by well-informed members of the original family.

8151 Highland Road
Baton Rouge, LA
(225) 761-7000
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*77 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

History
Mount Hope Plantation House stands as an example of the architecture typical of Southeastern Louisiana farmhouses constructed during the 19th century. Built in 1817, it is the only farmhouse of its kind remaining in the Baton Rouge area.

12501 Highway 10
St. Francisville, LA
(225) 635-3332
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*112 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

History
Rosedown Plantation, encompassing 374 acres in St. Francisville, is one of the most intact, documented examples of a domestic plantation complex in the South. It embodies the lifestyle of the antebellum South's wealthiest planters in a way very few other surviving properties can. The plantation's landscape is a laboratory for the study and interpretation of the cultural traditions of slavery, the life style of the gentry and scientific experiments in agriculture and horticulture. Rosedown was established in the 1830s by Daniel and Martha Barrow Turnbull, and remained in the hands of their descendants until the 1950s.

1208 Museum Drive
Houma, LA
(985) 851-0154
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*60 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

History
For more than nearly a century and a half, sugar was king in South Louisiana, enticing pioneers to the region and rewarding them with prosperity and progress. Southdown is located in the city of Houma in Terrebonne Parish, where some 86 sugar mills operated during the industry's boom years. The last operational mill in the Parish was the Southdown Mill, located adjacent to Southdown Plantation House. It closed in 1979 and was dismantled and shipped to Guatemala where it was reassembled for continued operation.

3535 Highway 18
Vacherie, LA
(225) 265-4078
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*56 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

History
This 1000 acre plantation is the birthplace of H. H. Richardson, one of America's most important architects of the 19th century. The maison principale was acquired by a French doctor, who was hired to care for the plantation masters, their families, and slaves. The "Louis XIV of Louisiana", Valcour Aime, gave this plantation to his daughter Josephine as a wedding gift, fully furnished and with a full staff of slaves. Josephine Roman, daughter of Valcour Aime, "The Louis XIV of Louisiana", married Alexis Ferry. They purchased the plantation in 1858 and enjoyed the lavish lifestyle that existed prior to the Civil War. In 1877, unable to retain ownership after slavery was abolished, they lost their plantation for non-payment of back taxes. The lives of these families through the years were deeply intertwined with neighboring plantations, Oak Alley, Laura, "Le Petit Versailles", and still to this day, Felicite.

40136 Highway 942
Darrow (Burnside), LA
(225) 473-9380
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*58 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

Hauntings
Houmas House Plantation and Gardens is the site of two very serious, inexplicable events; one precipitated by nature, the other by the very unnatural; The Legend of the "Gentlemen" and La Petite Fille (The Little Girl).

2161 Nicholson Dr
Baton Rouge, LA
(225) 343-4955
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*82 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

History
The plantation house, now surrounded by an urban setting, was once the center of a 900-acre operation with frontage on the Mississippi River. The main house was built in 1791 as a small settler's house and as prosperity came to the lower Mississippi Valley, the house was enlarged and renovated in 1802-05, to become the elegant seat of a major landowner.

6554 State Highway 44
Convent, LA
(225) 562-7728
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*58 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

History
Poche Plantation Historic Bed and Breakfast and RV Park and Resort is exceptional for both its architecture and the families who have resided here. Architecturally, it is unusual. Although it is a raised plantation house like so many others in the region its design was influenced by the Victorian Renaissance Revival style while most plantation homes were influenced by the Greek revival style.

13786 River Road
Destrehan, LA
(985) 764-8544
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*23 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

Hauntings
In old times, runs the legend, when the splendor and glory of the plantation were in bloom, some ghostly being came gliding into the house. Night had fallen, and the bats were coursing erratically in the gloom of the trees and the weeping moss, occasionally swooping about the chimney tops and gibbering at the wind which moaned at every corner.

30970 Highway 405
White Castle, LA
(225) 545-2730
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*77 Miles from Downtown New Orleans

History
Majestic Nottoway Plantation, with its towering size, hand-carved marble mantles and intricate plaster friezework, awes visitors with its grandeur and innovative features. The 64-room, three-story palatial mansion is sometimes referred to as an "American castle."