Just a few minutes away from New Orleans is lovely Laura Plantation. This place is a wonderful history lesson in Creole life. Surrounded by fields of sugar cane, you will experience a guided tour into the 200 year old sugar plantation homestead. Through live accounts and props, you will experience what it would have been like to actually live and work at the Laura Plantation.
However, I believe that the crown jewel is a guided tour inside one of the slave cabins, built in 1840, where the ancient tales of Compair Lapin, better known in English and through Disney’s “Song of the South”, as "Br'er Rabbit” (think Splash Mountain), were invented. On the grounds are 12 buildings on the National Register, including animal barns, the overseers' cottages, and other buildings of significant historical interest.
With a wonderful gift shop to explore, do not leave without your copy of Memories Of The Old Plantation Home. Written by the plantation's namesake, Laura Locoul Gore, this adds so much insight! I literally could not put it down!
Our tour guide was named Bryan, and he was fantastic. He was a natural storyteller, spinning the tales and legends of the Creole life with historical facts seamlessly.
Do not miss this journey into the past. Visit Laura Plantation.
2247 Highway 18
Vacherie, Louisiana
888-799-7690