An image of Vacherie's Oak Alley Plantation used during "Wheel of Fortune's" Southern Charm Week created a stir recently when viewers complained it depicted slaves working outside the mansion.

Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie offers self-guided tours of slave cabins, and, based on interest, they hope to begin guided tours soon. Information panels teach visitors about the small cabins ...

A holiday tradition in Vacherie, La., is an elegant dinner on the lawn of Oak Alley Plantation, followed by a bonfire. (Oak Alley Plantation - Oak Alley Plantation) This Christmas season, America ...

During the Antebellum era, plantation weddings became symbols of wealth and social power. To understand this phenomenon, ...

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Unlike Oak Alley, visitors come to Laura not to celebrate the grandeur of the era but to embrace the daily life of those who kept the plantation running -- namely women and slaves.

The most photographed plantation in the South has been transformed into an archeological excavation site. A team of archeologists are digging at Oak Alley in Vacherie to unearth a part of the ...

Some were constructed of simple clapboard. Others were made of double-wall, thick slave-hewn bricks. Oak Alley, however, is not called the Grande Dame of the Great River Road for nothing.

A religious icon is displayed on an oak tree a the head of Pine Alley Drive, also known historically as Oak and Pine Alley, Tuesday, August 13, 2024, in St. Martinville, La.