In mid-June, we enjoyed a three-day tour of historic plantations along Louisiana’s River Road. We didn’t tour all the plantations, for there are too many to visit during such a short trip. However, we ...

We didn’t tour all the plantations, for there are too many to visit during such a short trip. However, we did visit five of 10 plantations included in New Orleans Plantation Country. Each is located ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. JAMES PARISH, La. (WGNO) – One thing St.

Wouldn’t it just be the most fun to live in one of the oldest plantations right on the Mississippi River and welcome visitors with weddings and parties? “Built about 1787, Ormond is a West Indies ...

North America's greatest river now has a museum of similarly impressive scale. The 30,000-square-foot Great River Road Museum, which looks at 19th century life along the Mississippi River between ...

f history -- antebellum history, specifically -- is the real religion of the South, then plantations are the region's churches. Visiting a plantation isn't simply about learning something; at these ...

Mary Gehman has not only written a book about River Road, she also lives next to the Mississippi in the Ascension Parish town of Donaldsonville. So who better to answer a reader's question about the ...

We didn’t tour all the plantations, for there are too many to visit during such a short trip. However, we did visit five of 10 plantations included in New Orleans Plantation Country. Each is located ...

We didn’t tour all the plantations, for there are too many to visit during such a short trip. However, we did visit five of 10 plantations included in New Orleans Plantation Country. Each is located ...

We didn’t tour all the plantations, for there are too many to visit during such a short trip. However, we did visit five of 10 plantations included in New Orleans Plantation Country. Each is located ...