Over 13 acres make up Laura's historic homestead today. Bounded by the Mississippi River to the north, the site, with its 18^th and 19^th century syrup kettles, is surrounded by fields of sugarcane (best seen between July and December, when the cane is high). Eleven National Register structures stand on-site, including overseers' cottages (ca.1840s), barns, carriage houses and the "Maison de Reprise", built in 1829 as a retirement home for the women owners of Laura Plantation.

The very reason for saving this threatened site is the remaining 4 slave cabins, built in the 1840s.  These small shacks are the last reminders of 4 generations of enslaved workers who lived here and also of the world renowned west-African folktales of Compair Lapin (Br'er Rabbit), which were recorded here and on neighboring plantations over 135 years ago.