Hundreds of New Orleans plantations used to line the Mississippi River throughout Louisiana. Now there are few, mostly ...

At first, New Orleans was divided into plantations radiating from the river. Barthelemy Lafon redrew the maps to plan the Lower Garden District. Richard Campanella found old survey lines that remain.

OUR NEW-ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.; Plantation Labor The Crops General Order for the Protection of Laborers. Oct. 7, 1864 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from ...

See how prisoners escaped from Orleans Parish Prison, where 5 of 10 the inmates were caught, and the charges against those still at-large.

Plantations, faubourgs, Creoles, Anglos, competition, expansion, drainage, politics, taxes: embedded in that seemingly mundane map are sundry episodes in the human geography of New Orleans, going ...

The plantation, originally opened in 1752, has been converted into a museum that tells the stories of enslaved people.

Other plantations include Destrehan, Houmas House, San Francisco, Evergreen, St. Joseph and Nottaway; check with the site or your hotel concierge on tour van options from New Orleans.

However, despite the success of the sold-out event, the internet began to blame the escape of 10 inmates from a New Orleans jail and a fire that destroyed the Nottoway Plantation on Annabelle's visit.