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Travel > jawsnap  > Travel > New Orleans | Feb 11
3 remarkably cold days in New Orleans. Took a plantation tour, did a lot of walking around the Central Business District and French Quarter, ate lots of Southern cooking and only did a modest amount of drinking. I swear!
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Number Five New Orleans I assume this used to be a fire house.
Dining Room Laura Plantation Dining room in the Laura Plantation house, quite modest compared to the dining room we saw at Oak Alley.
Laura Plantation, Back Laura Plantation Apparently the house used to have two wings on the side, making it a 'U' shape. Most of the house was recently rebuilt after an electrical fire. This was the original yellow color of the house, and that's one way you could distinguish the Creole plantations from the English ones - the Englishmen painted their houses white. After buying the run-down plantation property for tourism, the new owners discovered extensive memoirs written by Laura, so there were a lot of interesting stories about how things were done back then.
Old Stuff Laura Plantation This pot, can and bottle were on display in one of the slave cabins.
Slave Cabin Laura Plantation Pretty awful to see - 2 families would share a cabin like this. No bed, no facilities... There used to be many rows of them closer to the sugar cane fields, away from the main house. They saved two of them and moved them closer for the tourists. The garden out front is something that the slaves would have had access to, since they were only fed breakfast and lunch. What I found really intriguing is that even after the Civil War, people continued to live in these cabins - up until the 1970s! They got electricity, but never plumbing. Even though slavery was abolished, many former slaves still worked on the plantations because there wasn't a lot of other work, and this was the cheapest housing available.
Window Laura Plantation Apparently this is where Laura herself 'retired'. It's just a few feet away from the main plantation house, but the Creole plantations were very much a family business, so I guess it was still home, even if she wasn't running it.
Oak Trees Oak Alley Plantation Row of nearly 200-year-old live oaks at Oak Alley. This shot was taken from the house, looking towards the Mississippi. Back in the day, you could have seen the river, but now the levees are too high.
Oak Alley Oak Alley Plantation Here's the money shot. The alley of oaks extends all the way from the house to the road, about 1000 ft (300 m) away. No one knows who planted the oaks - they predate the house.
Oak Alley, with Sun Oak Alley Plantation The sun peeked out a little for this shot. The current owners put the brick walkway in. A previous owner had cattle grazing here.
Number Five
New Orleans
I assume this used to be a fire house.
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Number Five
New Orleans
I assume this used to be a fire house.
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