Whitney Plantation Tour with Transportation

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WHEN Friday 7 November to Fri Jan 10th 2025

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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
Learn about the Big House, one of the earliest Louisiana raised Creole Cottages

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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.

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Round-trip transportation Self-guided Audio Tour at Whitney Plantation

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The local partner provides access for wheelchairs but not scooters or walkers
Vehicle lifts meet all ADA requirements and are equipped for wheelchair storage (based on availability). If wheelchairs can collapse and fold, staff will assist in accommodating the chair in a safe place on the vehicle
Due to the home's historic nature, access to the second floor is by stairs only
Walking the grounds is an integral part of this experience

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