Take a tour of Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana! The site is a National Historic Landmark and deservedly so. The grounds have these amazingly huge pecan trees that welcome you to the main mansion on the property.
Booking link for 2023 (includes Alligator Swamp Boat Tour): https://www.viator.com/tours/New-Orleans/Swamp-Boat-Ride-and-Southern-Plantation-Tour-from-New-Orleans/d675-3780SWPL?pid=P00101840&mcid=42383&medium=link&medium_version=selector
It is very rich in history and our tour guide gave a nice overview of it came to be, built by the original owners Jacques Roman and his wife Celina Roman nearly 200 years ago. We got to see the rooms inside the mansion, as well as the shacks outside where the slaves lives. We didn’t see any ghosts, but some of the portrait photos in the house were a bit eerie- apparently there talk that Oak Alley Plantation may be haunted.
The tour guides there were dressed in lovely period costumes, and you can even order drinks such as Mint Julep, Bourbon Twist and Creole Lemonade.
This was a very interesting part of from our tour of Louisiana in August, and we definitely recommend checking it out if you are visiting New Orleans, which is about an hour drive away to the west.
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Sounds like this was a crap marriage from what the tour guide said😔. Beautiful home tho holy crap.
nice tourguide
Jack! Are you in here!?
I went here back in 2007 and it was just as good back then as it is today. I still have my Mojito cup that i bought there too.
Damn that women in black dress was hot…had anxiety by just looking at her
YOU INBRED TRASH
I WANT IT
red dead 2 braithwaite manor
A magical place
This is the end of the goddamn Cribbage game!
-Hosea Matthews.
Great video,I think I may check this place out,never been to a plantation
Pretry sure i burnt this place down
Puro pinché racista.
GET IN THERE, FIND JACK AND FIND THAT BRAITHWAITE WOMAN!
My sons give him to angelo braaaawnntaay so he's either in san dennnee or on the boat to italy
These people were wealthy back then. WOW😮😮😮
I visited Oak Alley in 1978 and it is considerably different and more commercialized. I liked it better back then. Don't think I would visit it now.
I want to burn this when I’m older like the game
The lady wearing the dress at the beginning is giving me bad cosplay vibes
If one visits a nazi concentration camp does one concentrate how nicely the commandant with his family lived? This is absurd. Slave plantations were crimes against humanity. There is nothing charming about them. People were held there against their will and made work long days. They were beaten and raped and sometimes even killed.
Sad to say but they have ruined this tour. It was great back in 2016. We will never go back !
getting ready for a shoot out
Omitted who built the plantation and who actually put in the work. Disgusting commentary.
The Asians…..cameras…..
Get down here you inbred piece of trash!
Seriously??? — "built by" the plantation owners?? no, it appears that they did not build this but had brutalized human captives who were not allowed to leave build it for them and called them slaves …"built by the orginal owners Jacques Roman and his wife Celina Roman"; also the sign saying Pognon was so-called punished, no mention of what brutality that included. No amount of pretty architecture should overshadow the fact that blood & brutality literally built the place…all the wealth, all the building provided by brutality of human captives, who were called slaves and not allowed to leave without punishment of death – period.
There are plantation sites that are run by staff and/or organizations who do a masterful job of acknowledging the inhumanity, brutality, as well as honoring involuntarily captive who were people were literally forced to give their freedom and lives to build the plantation and wealth of the building owners while also acknowledging the architecture, land and broader history, this does not appear to be one of them.