Vacherie Creole Plantation Guided Tour
Explore a Louisiana Creole sugar farmstead through the stories of its free and enslaved families
Duration
75 mins
Includes
Main house, gardens, slave cabins
Highlights
Explore Laura Plantation, a Louisiana Creole sugar farmstead founded in 1805. Follow four generations of one Creole family, both free and enslaved, through the stories of owners, women, children, and enslaved people.
- Walk through the 1805 Maison Créole and its historic grounds
- Explore formal and kitchen gardens
- Visit original 1840s slave cabins
What's Included
- Guided tour led by a professional interpreter
- Historic grounds access
- 1805 Maison Créole
- Formal and kitchen gardens
- Original 1840s slave cabins
Important details
- Check in at the Plantation Store's front window
- Show your reservation confirmation on your phone or in print, or present a photo ID matching the reservation name
- Leave backpacks in your car or check them at the gift shop
- If traveling from New Orleans by taxi or ride-share, arrange for the driver to remain on site until your tour ends
- St. James Parish resident rates require ID showing St. James Parish residence
Cancellation Policy
No refunds unless the plantation is closed. If your itinerary changes, tickets remain valid for 30 days. If you arrive after your tour begins, you'll be placed on the next available tour.
Product ID: KEMN37
FAQs
Transportation is not included. Laura Plantation is about an hour's drive from New Orleans and outside public-transit, taxi, Uber, and Lyft service areas. Drive yourself or arrange for any taxi or ride-share driver to remain on site until your tour ends.
Meeting details
Plantation Store at Laura Plantation, 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, LA 70090
Related locations
Laura Plantation
Admission includedStanding along the west bank of the Mississippi River in Vacherie, Louisiana, Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Créole Heritage Site pulls you into a world shaped by four generations of a Créole family and the hundreds of enslaved people who built it. The ochre-painted main house and its surrounding dependencies carry a weight of real, documented history. Unlike many plantation sites, Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Créole Heritage Site centers the full story, drawing on more than 5,000 pages of family documents to illuminate daily life, labor, and culture across nearly two centuries of Louisiana's past.
