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There are a plethora of ways to feed your soul in Louisiana year-round. When it comes to the holidays, there’s no better way than enjoying #OnlyLouisiana cuisine with your family. Celebrate this holiday season with a Louisiana-inspired…
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Whether you're a romantic, a culture lover or a college student, we've got a New Orleans itinerary just for you. Planning a trip to New Orleans but don't know where to start? We've got ideas for all types of travelers with a wide variety of…
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Louisiana’s stunning natural beauty meets pro-caliber golf on the state’s Audubon Golf Trail, featuring courses designed by Arnold Palmer, Pete Dye, Robert Trent Jones, Sr. and Louisiana native and PGA champion David Toms. About Louisiana’s…
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Gretna, in Jefferson Parish, is home to one of Louisiana's largest national historic districts. Just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, the town of Gretna (originally known as Mechanickham) was settled by German immigrants in the 1830s…
African American Heritage Trail
For more than two centuries, the Cane River area near Natchitoches has been home to a distinct cultural group: Afro-Creoles. This group descended from the French planter Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer and his African wife, Marie-Thérèse Coin-Coin.…
African American Heritage Trail
Oakland Plantation & Magnolia Plantation Established as a historical park by the United States Congress in 1994, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park comprises Oakland Plantation and parts of Magnolia Plantation. Within the park, you…
African American Heritage Trail
Built by Nicholas Augustin Metoyer, St. Augustine is the first Catholic Church in the United States to be founded, independently financed and built by African Americans for their use. The structure is more than two centuries old and still in…
African American Heritage Trail
While the Folklife Center serves primarily as an educational center for local youth, it still offers an intense, personal narrative of local African American life in the first half of the 20th century. Creole folklorist Rebecca Henry has collected…
African American Heritage Trail
Port Hudson State Historic Site was the site of the first major use of African American troops in combat during the Civil War. In 1863, several regiments of the Louisiana Native Guards, locally recruited from formerly enslaved people and free…