Mansions are fascinating, oozing with extravagant opulence or dripping with Southern charm and magnificent splendor, like the ...

Of the plantations described below, Mt. Hope, Nottoway, Oak Alley and Madewood serve meals and offer lodging. Evergreen serves meals in its Victorian House Restaurant, but has no lodging available.

Festivals can’t be handed down like keepsakes, so when Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie recently decided to end its longtime arts and crafts event, it left a vacuum for the ...

Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie offers self-guided tours of slave cabins, and, based on interest, they hope to begin guided tours soon.

Oak Alley Plantation's owner and executive director, Zeb Mayhew Jr., knows the historic Vacherie home like few others do.

Spared in the Civil War, the 1,360-acre Oak Alley plantation changed hands repeatedly during Reconstruction. The house began to deteriorate.

After visiting Oak Alley with its twin rows of 300-year-old oaks and impressive Greek Revival architecture, I found the modest appearance of the Laura Plantation an interesting contrast. Laura is ...