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The Best Attractions In Edgard

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Evergreen Plantation

Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site

Whitney Plantation

Nottoway Plantation

Houmas House Plantation and Gardens

Destrehan Plantation

Oak Alley Plantation

Edgard is a census-designated place in, and the parish seat of, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,637 at the 2000 census. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area. Edgard is part of the German Coast of Louisiana.
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The Best Attractions In Edgard

1. Evergreen Plantation Edgard
2. Whitney Plantation Wallace Louisiana
The Whitney Plantation Historic District is a museum devoted to slavery in the Southern United States. The district, including the main house and outbuildings, is preserved near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, on the River Road along the Mississippi River. The plantation was started in 1752 by German immigrants Ambroise Haydel and his wife, and their descendants owned it until 1867.The museum, comprising main portions of the 2,000-acre plantation property, opened its doors to the public for the first time in December 2014. It was founded by John Cummings, a trial attorney from New Orleans who has spent more than $8 million of his own fortune on this long-term project, and worked on it for nearly 15 years. The director of research is a Senegalese scholar, Ibrahima Seck, ...
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3. Houmas House Plantation and Gardens Darrow
4. Oak Alley Plantation Vacherie
Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the southeastern United States. Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South. Many very large and old specimens of live oak can be found today in the deep southern United States.
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5. Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site Vacherie
6. Destrehan Plantation Destrehan
Destrehan is a census-designated place in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 11,535 at the 2010 census, an increase of 275 over the 2000 tabulation of 11,260. The community is named after Jean Noël Destréhan , who was twice President of the Orleans Territory's legislative council during his service there in 1806 and 1811. He was elected to the United States Senate when Louisiana became a state in 1812, but he resigned after a month. He served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1812 to 1817.Destrehan Plantation, his former home, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The main house has been restored and is one of the attractions on the Great River Road along the Mississippi River. In general terms, Destrehan is more country than neighboring Ke...
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7. Nottoway Plantation White Castle
Nottoway Plantation, also known as Nottoway Plantation House is located near White Castle, Louisiana, United States. The plantation house is a Greek Revival and Italianate-styled mansion built by John Hampden Randolph in 1859, and is the largest extant antebellum plantation house in the South with 53,000 square feet of floor space.
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Louisiana Cajun

Traveling in Houma, Louisiana, I met Mr. Elgin Thibodeaux, a real live Cajun who still speaks French with his family.

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