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 ...

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 moving product down 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 ...

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 ...

This River Parish city has deep history that's tied to the riches of 19th Century sugar plantations and its African-American culture.

The River Road African American Museum, founded in 1994 at Tezcuco, relocated to historic downtown Donaldsonville after the plantation was destroyed by fire in 2002.

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. The ...