Laura Plantation

Your fully guided experience includes:
• A tour based on Laura Locoul Gore's "Memories of the Old Plantation Home" and archival documents from the United States and France.
• A visit inside the Big House, its raised basement and galleries, men's and women's parlors, service rooms and common rooms.
• A walk through the 200-year-old sugar plantation homestead, including 3 gardens: Jardin Français, the kitchen potager & BananaLand grove. On the grounds are 12 buildings on the National Register, including animal barns, overseers' cottages and the 1829 Maison de Reprise.
• A visit inside one of the authentic 1840s slave cabins, where the ancient west-African tales of Compair Lapin, better known in English as "Br'er Rabbit," were recorded.
• A self-guided tour of the newly opened museum exhibit, "From the Big House to Quarters: Slavery on Laura Plantation."
• Free parking and entrance to the Laura Plantation Store.