We have focused on just one section of plantation homes in the Mississippi valley, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. There are other plantations scattered here and there. About 15 miles ...

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 ...

From huge trunks as wrinkled as an old man`s hands, the live oaks of Oak Alley thrust out 100-foot branches parallel to the earth. We who live on modern streets did not know oaks could grow to ...

Last month, Oak Alley Plantation — across the river on La. 18, the west bank River Road in St. James Parish — announced it would no longer be holding its biannual arts and crafts festival that ...

Oak Alley, however, is not called the Grande Dame of the Great River Road for nothing. ... Plantation homes of all shapes and sizes. Some were constructed of simple clapboard.

Tourism officials will gather at Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie Thursday to mark the announcement of the "Great River Road'' being named a "National Scenic Byway'' by the U.S. Department of ...

It (Oak Alley) has a way of doing that to someone.” After spending many months making cosmetic repairs, the plantation opened up for public tours in 1976 Before then, tours of Oak Alley were a ...