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Laura Plantation

Laura Plantation is an attraction in Vacherie, LA, part of the New Orleans guide. Cost: $25 to $50.

2247 Hwy 18 · Vacherie, LA

Why you should go…

Laura Plantation is a 14-acre National Register site along Louisiana's Great River Road in Vacherie, about 50 minutes from New Orleans. The complex includes the 1805 Maison Principale in the raised Creole style, the 1829 Dower House and four original 1840s slave cabins. Guided tours, based on Laura Locoul Gore's memoir, run about 75 to 80 minutes and cover four generations of a free and enslaved Creole family.

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What's around here?

The closest stops to Laura Plantation, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.

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