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By Tours by Isabelle
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$2,970 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 6h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • This is a small narrated private tour by van, for groups of up to 13 travellers. At Whitney Plantation's Louisiana Museum of Slavery, see the harsh realities and raw historical facts of a dark side of American history. The slave narratives and artwork recreate the world of a pre-Civil War southern sugar plantation and memorial in honour of the lives of the enslaved people who toiled there. A short ride through sugar cane fields brings you to Laura, a Creole Plantation with historic slave quarters surrounded by sugar cane fields.

Activity location

  • Whitney Plantation
    • 5099 Highway 18
    • 70049-2803, Wallace, Louisiana, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Whitney Plantation
    • 5099 Highway 18
    • 70049-2803, Wallace, Louisiana, United States

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Laura and Whitney Plantation Tour with Private Transport

  • Activity duration is 6 hours6h
    6h
  • English

Pickup included

Price details
AU$2,970.28 x 1 AdultAU$2,970.28
Total
Price is AU$2,970.28
Until Sat, 10 Oct

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Tour of Whitney Plantation (self-guided)
  • Inclusions
    Private Transport with Narration
  • Inclusions
    Tour of Laura Plantation (not private)
  • Inclusions
    Hotel pickup and drop-off (selected hotels only)
  • Exclusions
    Service charge
  • Exclusions
    This tour does NOT include a meal. Snacks and drinks available for purchase.

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • Tour can only accommodate fully collapsible wheelchairs

Activity itinerary

Lake Pontchartrain (Pass by)

This is an off-the-beaten path, away from large tourist crowds, private tour. A 14 passenger tour van and excellent driver/guide pick you up at your New Orleans hotel and narrate the scenic 90-minute drive out of New Orleans. Ride along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain and prepare for a pilgrimage back in time to the Antebellum South. There will be a scenic crossing of the Mississippi River on a high suspended bridge. Then you'll take a short ride upriver to Whitney Plantation's Louisiana Museum of Slavery.

Whitney Plantation

  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
On your self-guided audio walking tour, at your own pace, you will see slave cabins, a freedmen’s church, detached kitchen and a 1790s owner’s house. Learn about the harsh realities & raw historical facts of slavery in pre-Civil War Louisiana. Witness the dark side of American history. Hear narratives and see 14 memorials honouring people enslaved on the grounds of a historical sugar, rice and indigo plantation established in 1752. Visit Whitney Plantation's Museum of Slavery, learn about the lives of people held in bondage for over 100 years.

Laura: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site

  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
A short ride through sugar cane fields brings you to Laura, a Creole Plantation with historic slave quarters surrounded by sugar cane fields. The guided tour transports you with dramatic detail into the lives of four generations of Creole owners and their slaves.

Evergreen Plantation (Pass by)

See the most intact plantation complex in the South with 37 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, including 22 slave cabins in their original double-row configuration under a truly spectacular alley of centuries old oak trees. It is a privately owned, working sugar cane plantation. More than 400 individuals were enslaved at Evergreen Plantation over the course of 150 years. Many were exceptionally skilled, working as long sawyers, coopers, carpenters, blacksmiths, engineers, seamstresses, and domestics. Some could trace their ancestry back multiple generations to the first slaves brought to the plantation. This diverse community was made up of Africans, the enslaved from the American South, and Creoles of Louisiana.

St. Joseph Plantation (Pass by)

St Jo., built in the 1830’s is one of the few fully intact sugar plantations in the River Parishes. In addition to the Manor Home, this historic site features many outbuildings: original slave cabins, a detached kitchen, blacksmith’s shop, schoolhouse, and chicken coop. Felicity is a sister plantation to St. Joseph. Built in 1845 on one thousand acres of premium farmland, it was a dowry gift from “Valcour” Aime to one of his daughters, Félicité. She married Alexandre Fortier and they had fourteen children.

Location

Activity location

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    Whitney Plantation
    • 5099 Highway 18
    • 70049-2803, Wallace, Louisiana, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Whitney Plantation
    • 5099 Highway 18
    • 70049-2803, Wallace, Louisiana, United States

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