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African American Heritage Trail
Whitney Plantation tells the story of enslaved people, on the grounds where they labored. This historic sugar, rice and indigo plantation, established in 1752, is the only plantation museum with an exclusive focus on the lives of the enslaved. On…
African American Heritage Trail
Frogmore Plantation in Frogmore is a cotton plantation from the early 1800’s located just across the Mississippi River from Natchez, yet is still a working operation today. Visitors can learn about the contrasts between life on the farm in the pre…
African American Heritage Trail
Fontainebleau State Park is the original location of the Fontainebleau plantation and sugar mill. The crumbling brick ruins of a sugar mill built in 1829 by Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville, founder of the nearby town of Mandeville, suggest an…
African American Heritage Trail
Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site explores the cultural interplay among the diverse peoples along the famed Bayou Teche in the early- and mid-19th century. People of Acadian, Creole, Native American, French, Spanish and African heritage —…
African American Heritage Trail
Centenary State Historic Site houses a Victorian-era college. Built in 1826, the College of Louisiana merged into Centenary College in the 1840s. The site focuses on the history of early education in the United States as well as the Civil War, as…
African American Heritage Trail
Audubon State Historic Site features Oakley House, a plantation home where the famous naturalist John James Audubon once worked as a tutor. The rooms have been restored in the style of the late Federal Period (1790-1830), reflecting their…
African American Heritage Trail
Visit this large Victorian-era plantation home and gardens, originally built by the Turnbull family, and discover how the social elite of the mid-19th century lived. Tour an impressive 28 acres of preserved formal gardens, and take part in African…
African American Heritage Trail
Founded in 1994, the Northeast Louisiana Delta African Heritage Museum museum features seminars, events and research materials on the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Northeast Louisiana, plus works of art by Don Cincone, Bernard Menyweather and…
African American Heritage Trail
The Southern University Museum of Art (SUMAS) is a compact gallery that features a collection of university- and privately-donated artwork. SUMAS has a remarkable collection of African and African American art and artifacts representing centuries…
African American Heritage Trail
This community center and interpretive facility features a wide array of exhibits on the many different cultures represented in Shreveport’s population. There are more than 26 diverse cultural groups living in the Shreveport-Bossier area, and this…