I love old houses and being a genealogist, I love history so a visit to some old plantations was a must on my list of things to do in Louisianna. The first one we saw was Evergreen Plantation.
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We visited Laura Plantation. This one was more of an office, the families stayed there just in the summer during sugar cane season so the inside was not "grand" like I expected.
These pots were huge. They were shipped here from France. Notice how only the very top is glazed. They would submerse them in the Mississippi River until they were water logged. They would empty them and bury them up to the glazed lip and used them as refrigerators. The inside would stay nice and cool.
These were some of the slave cabins on this plantation.
As we were driving along the River Road, we found these scattered slave shacks.
All of these were on the south west side of the Mississippi River. We journied to the other side of the river and found the San Francisco Plantation
Both sides of the river had a levee. We stopped periodically and climbed to the top to see the river. There were always several boats going up and down the river.
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