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Coordinates: 30°01′02″N 90°42′27″W 30.017313000000001, -90.707410999999993

Laura Plantation

• Location & Contact Information
  • Address: 2247 Highway 18 Vacherie LA 70090
  • Telephone Number: +1-504-265-7690
  • Official Website: [1]
• Overview

Laura Plantation is a historic plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana on the West Bank of the Mississippi River near Vacherie, Louisiana. It is significant for its early 19th c. Créole-style raised big house and several surviving outbuildings, including six slave quarters. It is one of only 15 plantation complexes in Louisiana with this degree of complete structures. Because of its importance, the plantation is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also included on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. Alcée Fortier, who later became Professor of Romance Languages and folklore at Tulane University, was said to have collected Louisiana Creole versions of the West African Brer Rabbit stories here in the 1870s. ^[1]

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