Plantations on River Road

This is an area of Louisiana north west of New Orleans which still has some of the origingal (and not so original) plantation houses.

My porch at the Oak Alley plantation B&B Sugar cane fields just beyond the porch hard to see, but the sugar cane is just beginning to sprout Oak Alley info drove my Honda to the levee but the levee was dry view of the Mississippi from the levy obligatory iconic view of Oak Alley close up and another one ... view from the other side - live oaks are 100 years older than the hous French garden in the back Louisiana morning. Laura plantation - a Creole-style plantation house definitely not Gone with the Wind - in a good sense construction detail. lower level. The house was constructed ... without nails - it all fits together like a puzzle wine bottles and olive oil jugs that were later used for refrigeration porch view from the porch interior construction details slave shack - a family of 6 might live in one room bird houses in the slave shack The neighborhood of the San Francisco plantation poor thing is behind bars San Francisco plantation details ... ... St. Josephs plantation next door to Oak Alley