Contact
Sherry McInnis
Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation
504-256-0912
Where
Register at Oak Alley Plantation Pavilion
Vacherie, LA
Directions from New Orleans to Oak Alley Plantation
Take Interstate 10 (West) to Interstate 310 (South) Exit #220 - for Boutte. Continue on Interstate 310 across the Destrehan/Luling Bridge to exit #10 - for Donaldsonville, Highway 3127. Travel twenty-three (23) miles on Highway 3127 to major intersection with Highway 20. Turn right on Highway 20, travel three (3) miles to Highway 18, turn left and travel three (3) miles to Oak Alley Plantation.
Or, alternately: Take Interstate 10 (West) to the Gramercy Exit #194. Turn left on Highway 641 (South). Follow Highway 641 (South), which will turn into Highway 3213. Continue on Highway 3213 over the Veteran's Memorial Bridge (also known as Gramercy/Wallace Bridge). Take the exit on the down ramp toward Vacherie. Turn left onto Highway 18 and travel seven and one-half (7 1/2 ) miles to Oak Alley Plantation.
Directions from Baton Rouge to Oak Alley Plantation
Take Interstate 10 (East) to the Lutcher/Mississippi River Bridge exit #194. Turn right on Highway 641 (South). Follow Highway 641 (South), which will turn into Highway 3213. Continue on Highway 3213 over the Veteran's Memorial Bridge (also known as Gramercy/Wallace Bridge). Take the exit on the down ramp toward Vacherie. Turn left onto Highway 18 and travel seven and one-half miles to Oak Alley Plantation.
Schedule
Saturday, December 13
9:30-10:00 Registration at Oak Alley Plantation Pavilion
10:00-12:00 Oak Alley and Grounds Tour
11:30-1:00 Box Lunch at Oak Alley Plantation Pavilion
1:00-1:15 Travel to Laura Plantation
1:15-3:00 Laura Plantation and Grounds Tour
3:00-3:15 Travel to Whitney Plantation Museum of Slavery
3:15-5:00 Whitney Plantation Museum of Slavery and Grounds Tour
In cooperation with Oak Alley Plantation, Laura Plantation, and Whitney Plantation Museum of Slavery
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Join us to see what's NEW at these historic sites.
Oak Alley Plantation
No other visual experience better exemplifies the "Old South" than this spectacular quarter-mile of 300 year old live oaks framing her classic antebellum mansion. Tours focus on the loves & tragedies of one of Louisiana's most prominent plantation dynasties. The historical grounds & mansion, typify the idyllic lifestyle that still resonates when most imagine America's pre-Civil War south.
Laura Plantation
Laura's "Creole Family Saga" tour details 200 years of real-life stories of owners, women, slaves & children of this sugar plantation. Built in 1805, still surrounded by sugarcane, the farmstead stands with 12 historic buildings, gardens and the slave quarters where the west African folktales of the legendary rascal Br'er Rabbit were recorded.
Whitney Plantation
Museum of Slavery and Grounds
Over 350 individuals clearly identified in official records were enslaved on the Whitney Plantation from 1770-1861, living a life of labor and abuse that devastated their families and culture. The plantation's restored buildings, museum exhibits, slave narratives and memorial artwork recreate the world of a pre-Civil War sugar plantation and the lives of the slaves who toiled there.
Lagniappe:
Return home by traveling to the east bank across Veteran's Memorial Bridge then along Highway 18 to see the Bonfires on the Levee built to light Papa Noel's way.
