New Orleans Plantation

These plantations were during the slavey years of the pre civil war era.   they were sugar farms .. 2 of the biggest in the New Orleans area.  Fascinating, the farm is still active but the houses are a museum.

Laura: A Creole Plantation.
The Old Plantation Home, in which she details 250 years of true-life stories of the Creole women, slaves and children who lived and worked here. 11 historic buildings on the National Register, including slave cabins in which the West-African folktales of Compair Lapin (later known as Br’er Rabbit) were recorded over 140 years ago.

 

The pantry

 

the old chook shed - the bricked area in front  of the chook pens was the old Kitchen as it was not allowed to be connected to the house

 

The sugar farm

 

Slaves house ... 4 families lived in each hut ... 1 room 16 x 16 foot room  1 family to each room

 

The dinning table ... the red swing over the table was to keep the guests cool ... 1 person would wing it the same speed all nite  ...

My Fav plantation - Oak Alley.
the unbelievable quarter-mile long alley of 28 magnificent Oak trees, each over 250 years old, and view the Majestic Cypress Trees in Louisiana’s swamps bordering the Mississippi River.

 

It looks like "Tara" from "Gone with the Wind"

 

 

 

 

Look from the house to the Mighty Mississippi

 

 

The tour guide in an outfit of the era... so cool to see that..

 

a view of the original bricks

 

 

the width of the walls ... solid bricks... made from the local area.

 

 

tools used in making the sugar

 

The Confederate Flag