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The mission behind tours at Laura Plantation

Laura Plantation preserves and interprets the documented histories of the people who lived and labored here, illuminating the complexities of Louisiana's Creole world, the realities of enslavement, and the enduring struggle for freedom while inspiring understanding, reflection, and meaningful dialogue across generations.

Here, you will find the difference that exemplifies Creole Louisiana. Explore the rigors of 200 years of daily life, along with the sobering experience of slavery as it happened at one historic plantation on the banks of the Mississippi River in the middle of New Orleans Plantation Country.