New Orleans: Whitney Plantation Tour with Transportation

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In 2014 the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 262 year history as the only plantation museum in Louisiana completely dedicated to the history of slavery.

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Live guiding

English
Duration

5 hours - 465 minutes
Includes
- Round-trip transportation
- Audio Tour of the 272 year old plantation site with a focus on first-person slave narratives
- View museum exhibits, memorial artwork, and restored buildings
- See historic outbuildings of a Louisiana working plantation
- Learn about the Big House, one of the earliest Louisiana raised Creole Cottages
- Pass Evergreen, Felicity, St. Joseph, Laura, and Oak Alley Plantations
- 90-minute pontoon swamp tour (if upgrade option chosen)
- Food and beverages
- Gratuities

Highlights & Description

Highlights

Round-trip transportation
Audio Tour of the 272 year old plantation site
View museum exhibits, memorial artwork, and restored buildings
See historic outbuildings of a Louisiana working plantation
Upgrade your experience to include a 90-minute swamp tour

Description

On this tour, you will get a personal look into the history of plantation owners and enslaved people in Antebellum Louisiana.

In 2014 the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 262 year history as the only plantation museum in Louisiana completely dedicated to the history of slavery. The experience at Whitney is a self-paced audio tour. Through museum exhibits, memorial artwork, restored buildings, and hundreds of first-person narratives, visitors to Whitney will gain a unique perspective on the enslaved people who lived and worked here.

The early owners of Habitation Haydel, later known as Whitney Plantation, became wealthy producing indigo before the plantation transitioned to sugar in the early 1800s. Whitney is also significant because of the number of its historic outbuildings which were added to the site over the years, thus providing a unique perspective on the evolution of the Louisiana working plantation. The Big House is one of the finest surviving examples of Spanish Creole architecture and one of the earliest raised Creole cottages in Louisiana.

The Whitney Plantation Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places. As a site of memory and consciousness, the Whitney Plantation Museum is meant to pay homage to all enslaved people on the plantation itself and to all of those who lived elsewhere in the United States.

On your journey to this historic setting, you’ll travel past Laura, Oak Alley, Evergreen, Felicity & St. Joseph Plantations, ghosts of the past that front the Mississippi River, where rich crops of sugar cane, cotton, and indigo from these fertile lands once traveled to ports of trade.

*Upgrade your experience to include a 90-minute swamp tour!*

SWAMP TOUR UPGRADE ONLY: Then it’s a short ride to the Manchac Swamp where you will cruise through a privately-owned wildlife refuge, in a comfortable, covered pontoon boat driven by a local captain. Learn about the history of Frenier and the Cajun culture of fishing, hunting, and trapping. Keep your eyes peeled for alligators as they leap up for snacks!

Good to know before you go

The Whitney Plantation is a self-guided tour. Please make sure to download the Whitney Plantation app on your cell phone, tablet, or iPad to listen to an audio tour.
Guests visiting Whitney using a wheelchair will have access to the gift shop, restrooms, and museum. The plantation grounds are accessible; however, there are uneven gravel paths. Guests would be able to view the slave quarters, but would not have access to enter.
SWAMP TOUR UPGRADE ONLY: The Whitney & Swamp Combo Tour with Transportation option includes a 90-minute tour of Manchac Swamp where you will cruise through a privately-owned wildlife refuge, in a comfortable, covered pontoon boat driven by a local captain. Keep your eyes peeled for alligators as they leap up for snacks!

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