In the United State's South, plantation homes and properties are major attractions for both tourists and history buffs, and these plantations also serve as significant historical sites. Louisiana is ...

For my last stop in the lower River Road region, I took a detour to Madewood Plantation in Napoleonville on Bayou Lafourche. Just before dark, the cane fields loomed in tall shadows close to Louisiana ...

A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal protection following a ...

The 70-mile stretch of the Great River Road running alongside the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is one of the most storied sections on the 3,000-mile course of America’s ...