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* This tour requires at least one of the following per booking: Adult, Senior
WEST-AFRICAN Captured for their agricultural and construction skills, their work created the Louisiana colony and influenced all segments of the newly-forming Creole culture, best seen today in language, cuisine, music, family-centered traditions, architecture and life-style. This sugarcane plantation started in 1805 with 7 enslaved people (six west-Africans and one Amerindian). As the plantation grew, so did the number of enslaved workers. Four original slave cabins built in the 1840s remain standing today on the plantation. By the onset of the Civil War, 186 workers were enslaved on this farm. Following the emancipation of slaves in Louisiana (1866), the great majority of these former slaves continued to live in the Laura Plantation quarters.
Descendants of these men & women were displaced in 1895 when cypress lumber companies had their own workers inhabit the Laura slave quarters. The cabins were lived in until 1977. Descendants of slaves live near the Laura Plantation to this day.
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Traveler pickup is offered
We pick up from most hotels in the downtown area if your hotel is not listed pick the location nearest to you. Pick up will be between 8 AM and 8:30 AM
Laura: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site, Vacherie, Louisiana, United States Once arriving at tour site all travelers will spend approximately two hours. Laura Plantation is a one hour and ten minute guided tour of the mansion. Travelers will also have a self guided tour of the grounds a viewing slave cabins. Also you can explore the gift shop and grab a quick snack before departure 2 minutes
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Please observe silence during the transfer or travel time as a respect to your co travelers.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
Kristin_W
21 Apr 2024
Our tour guide gave a very nuanced, historically accurate description of life on the plantation, from the plantation owners to the enslaved people. Learned more here than I ever did in school
Mark_N
09 Mar 2024
Very informative tour - All guides were great.
Except arrived late for our tour at Laura Plantation to meet our guide there.
And no information that you could get food and drink at Oak Alley Plantation at the stop for 45 minutes.
That was in our opinion essential information, as no food at Laura Plantation.
Otherwise thanks to all involved, in giving us this trip.
suzanne_b
19 Feb 2024
La guide prenait vraiment le temps de nous expliquer et surtout nou laissait le temps de nous imprégner des endroits. Ca remet les choses en perspective de se retrouver un peu dans cette époque.
This tour in
New Orleans
is organized by
CRESCENT CITY TOURS & TRANSPORTATION
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