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A visit to Laura Plantation, which sits about 600 feet from the Mississippi River, is a step into the unique history of a southern plantation run by women.!
Laura Plantation, named after Laura Locoul Gore, is an old sugarcane plantation over 200 years old.
Laura Plantation
Historic house in Louisiana, United States
United States historic place
Laura Plantation is a restored historic Louisiana Creoleplantation on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Vacherie, Louisiana.[2] Formerly known as Duparc Plantation, it is significant for its early 19th-century Créole-style raised big house and several surviving outbuildings, including two slave cabins.
It is one of only 15 plantation complexes in Louisiana with this many complete structures.[2] Due to its historical importance, the plantation is on the National Register of Historic Places. The site, in St.
James Parish, Louisiana, is also included on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
Alcée Fortier, who later became Professor of Romance Languages and folklore at Tulane University, was said to have collected Louisiana Creole versions of the West African Br'er Rabbit stories here in the 1870s.
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