We left the city going northwest and crossed over the Mighty Mississippi, we drove along the Great River Road but because of the levee you do not see the Mississippi very often unless you go up on top of the levee to look.
Our first Plantation was the Evergreen Plantation and they had two huge rows of these oak trees that lead past the plantation house back to the sugar cane fields. Now this is still a working plantation so it was a great one to see.
The Plantation house, the owner was not in residence so we got to go inside but not allowed to take pictures inside.
After the plantation house tour we went back into the fields to see the slave quarters.
It was awesome, I could hear the workers in my mind, what a feeling.
Remember in Florida they were just then harvesting the cane, well look how tall it has already grown. Down south in Louisiana the Plantations are all sugar cane and when you move north they will be cotton.
Next on to the Oak Alley Plantation, now this Plantation was much richer but is now a museum of sorts but very beautiful.
The front of the house
Looking back through the 28 oaks planted in the front of the house, these oaks are about 250 years old, they live about 600 years
Ron in the back yard of the Oak Alley Plantation
By the time we got to the Nottoway Plantation, it was 4:30pm and the tours were over but we went out into the grounds to get some pictures at least.
The side and back of the Plantation house was more beautiful than the front.
We walked up on top of the levee to see the Mississippi just in time to see a big barge going by, the river is very busy with commercial traffic.l
A wonderful, wonderful day, we took a picnic lunch and ate under the oak trees of a plantation, what more could one ask for.
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