Two east bank Mississippi River plantations, Poché Plantation in Convent and San Francisco Plantation in Garyville, have announced plans to create their own new fall festivals, in the absence of ...

The San Francisco Plantation is open for daily tours. It is a national historic landmark and part of the Plantation Parade.

Somewhere between the water and the land, the French Creole elite built country estates along the river. Plantation homes of all shapes and sizes. Some were constructed of simple clapboard. Others ...

San Francisco Plantation sits on the east bank of the Great Mississippi River less than 40 minutes from New Orleans or Baton Rouge, Louisiana near the small historic town of Garyville. It is a ...

25,000 people visited San Francisco Plantation in Garyville last year. But this summer, the historic site is closed for the first major repairs in forty years.

With the purchase of a card, you will receive one general admission tour to each of 4 locations: Houmas House Plantation, Laura Plantation, Oak Alley Plantation and San Francisco Plantation.

San Francisco provides a much different narrative. Thanks to bold public policy and educational initiatives, the city diverts about 80 percent of its waste from landfills, or more than 1.5 million ...

A group of black Tulane medical students took a now-viral photo in their white coats at the slave quarters on a former plantation in Louisiana over the weekend.

Photo provided by San Francisco Plantation -- San Francisco Plantation in Garyville in St. John the Baptist Parish has announced a new arts and crafts festival in fall 2014.

WHITE CASTLE, La. (AP) — Flames ripped through a massive mansion in Louisiana, destroying much of the historic structure that was used as a plantation house when it was completed in 1859 ...