BRAITHWAITE, La. - A grand white-pillared plantation house built on historic River Road near the Mississippi nearly 200 years ago will be sold in a March 10 auction that could provide a new twist ...

In mid-June, we enjoyed a three-day tour of historic plantations along Louisiana’s River Road. ... However, we did visit five of 10 plantations included in New Orleans Plantation Country.

Take a Louisiana plantation tour and discover how glamorous New Orleans society was supported by enslaved workers who made their owners wealthy.

Louisiana’s Great River Road is actually two historic corridors reaching seventy miles from New Orleans to beyond Baton Rouge on either side of the Mississippi. First Spanish, then French, and ...

You could look at the region as a kind of riverside factory zone, an agricultural machine growing sugar cane in loamy fields, then grinding it up, processing the lot and ...

"I 'm not trying to make you sad or depressed," says our tour guide standing before one of the threadbare slave cabins dotting the grounds at Whitney Plantation.

This River Parish city has deep history that's tied to the riches of 19th Century sugar plantations and its African-American culture. Skip to content. Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network.

While I’ve visited New Orleans, I’ve always wanted to see the plantation houses on Louisiana’s River Road, a 70-mile stretch on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

"I'm not trying to make you sad or depressed," says our tour guide standing before one of the threadbare slave cabins dotting the grounds at Whitney Plantation. "That's just the way it was, the ...

In mid-June, we enjoyed a three-day tour of historic plantations along Louisiana’s River Road. We didn’t tour all the plantations, for there are too many to visit during such a short trip ...