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African American Heritage Trail
Southern is one of the largest historically Black universities in the world. The school was established in New Orleans as an agricultural and mechanical school in 1879 during the post-Reconstruction period. Although it offered courses in the…
African American Heritage Trail
One of the most intriguing tours along Louisiana’s River Road is offered by Laura: A Creole Plantation and focuses on the white and Black Creole families that lived at this place in the 19th century. Built in 1805, this French-Creole-style…
African American Heritage Trail
Located in the little river town of Donaldsonville, once the commercial center for the Bayou Lafourche district, the River Road African American Heritage Museum features materials relating to slavery and African American life in the neighboring…
African American Heritage Trail
Mahalia Jackson is widely considered the best and most influential gospel vocalist in history. She grew up in the Carrollton neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans in a three-room dwelling that housed thirteen people, beginning her singing career as a…
African American Heritage Trail
Just west of Louisiana’s capital city, Port Allen’s West Baton Rouge Museum tells the story of rural, pre-Civil War era plantation life. Permanent exhibits showcase early French Creole architecture and the cultivation of sugar throughout history.…
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…