HAVE YOUR PASSPORT IN HAND as you enter the Creole world of Louisiana at Laura Plantation, an historic sugar plantation built in 1805, where the Guided Tour transports you into Louisiana's Creole culture.  Named by Lonely Planet Travel as the "Best History Tour in the  U.S.," the one-hour guided visit, entitled:  The Creole Family Saga, is based upon 5,000 pages of documents found in the French National Archives and upon Laura's Memories of the Old Plantation Home,  dramatically detailing 250 years of true-life stories of Creole women, slaves and children.  These Memories are described in the "Guided Tour" section of our website.

The Laura farmstead is surrounded by fields of sugarcane and boasts 11 historic buildings on the National Register, including slave cabins in which the West-African folktales of Compair Lapin (later known as Br'er Rabbit) were recorded over 140 years ago.

The Laura Plantation Store offers a vast selection of gifts, books and souvenirs on Louisiana and Creole culture, slavery, music, arts and crafts and cuisine, including Laura's Memories, the original Br'er Rabbit folktales, and the recently released one-hour documentary DVD on Laura:  "Reconstructing Creole."

Laura is open seven days a week and closed on the Creole holidays:  New Years, Mardi Gras, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Guided tours start daily at:
10:00 AM, 11:15 AM, 12:30 PM, 1:45 PM, 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM
There are NO self-guided tours and no one is permitted to only "walk the grounds"

Tours in French available.  Group tours (20+ persons) by reservation.