The word plantation brings a lot of things to mind. Some think of big houses with white columns, wrap-around porches, and antebellum-style dresses. Some think of the enslaved that worked there and ...

"Greenwood is one of the most beautiful spots in the country," the plantation's new partner said. "There are 200-year-old ...

Nottoway Plantation, located in White Castle at 31025 LA-1, is the south's largest antebellum mansion and was completed just two years before the beginning of the Civil War. Daily tours are ...

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses where scores of enslaved Africans labored, has sparked joy and anger onl ...

When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s ... about resistance on plantations; the other helped pay for programming, including a virtual tour and a Juneteenth celebration.

In Louisiana, all was not well before the Civil War. Or after the war either. But the sugar-coating around slavery is finally over for some of the great plantation houses of the state. I was ...

LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show ... For decades that story wasn’t told during tours of the grand plantation homes lining the Mississippi River. The Banner sisters, descendants ...