WEST-AFRICAN Captured for their agricultural and construction skills, their work created the Louisiana colony and influenced all segments of the newly-forming Creole culture, best seen today in language, cuisine, music, family-centered traditions, architecture and life-style. This sugarcane plantation started in 1805 with 7 enslaved people (six west-Africans and one Amerindian). As the plantation grew, so did the number of enslaved workers. Four original slave cabins built in the 1840s remain standing today on the plantation. By the onset of the Civil War, 186 workers were enslaved on this farm. Following the emancipation of slaves in Louisiana (1866), the great majority of these former slaves continued to live in the Laura Plantation quarters.
Descendants of these men & women were displaced in 1895 when cypress lumber companies had their own workers inhabit the Laura slave quarters. The cabins were lived in until 1977. Descendants of slaves live near the Laura Plantation to this day.
Posted By : Kristin_W
Our tour guide gave a very nuanced, historically accurate description of life on the plantation, from the plantation owners to the enslaved people. Learned more here than I ever did in school
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Posted On : 2024-04-21 11:02:10 
Posted By : Mark_N
Very informative tour - All guides were great.
Except arrived late for our tour at Laura Plantation to meet our guide there.
And no information that you could get food and drink at Oak Alley Plantation at the stop for 45 minutes.
That was in our opinion essential information, as no food at Laura Plantation.
Otherwise thanks to all involved, in giving us this trip.
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Posted On : 2024-03-09 18:46:36
Posted By : Angelica_S
Always the best and my goto Plantation tour company! Beloved Crescent City Tours thank you again! Checkout google review for more details!
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Posted On : 2023-10-30 13:08:01
Posted By : Nicole_W
We enjoyed our tour of the Laura Plantation. Pam is a WONDERFUL tour guide. She knows her history and tells it in such a beautiful way. A well crafted story that loves you wanting more.
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Posted On : 2023-06-16 10:14:04
Posted By : Ian J
We did the Laura Plantation tour with transportation from Crescent City tours.
The Laura Plantation tour itself was just ok, but Crescent City Tours doesn't actually do that tour for you, they just take you do the plantation and the plantation has their own tour guides.
The transportation from Crescent City tours was ok. They picked us up at our hotel via a medium sized bus. After picking a few other people up at different hotels, it was about an hour drive to the plantation. The driver was nice and 'somewhat' funny; it was nice that he gave us informative information on the city and places we were passing along the way, so the ride wasn't boring.
We were dropped off at our plantation and then picked up about 2 hours later. After all the people were back on board, we stopped at the Oak Alley planation for a 20 min break to get food or bathroom etc. Then we stopped other people off at a swamp tour and then back to the hotel.
Overall, we were picked up around 8:20am and got dropped back off around 2:30pm.
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Posted On : 2022-12-04 13:14:46 
Posted By : hopedream78
Brian was actually the star of this tour for me. Especially with the heavy nature of the tour for me personally. Overall, the plantation tour itself was just okay, but the ride to and from was a great delight!
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Posted On : 2022-11-17 06:53:27
Posted By : Nicole_O
The owner and guides of Crescent City Tours and Transportation provided excellent service and were a lot of fun!
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Posted On : 2022-10-30 18:20:27
Posted By : DayTrip68421726100
Crescent City Tours is amazing! We had so much fun with Brian on the way to and from the Laura Plantation. He took time to show us sites along the way and was a perfect southern gentleman. We will definitely book with them the next time we visit the city.
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Posted On : 2021-09-27 18:31:34
Posted By : Budda11
This was absolutely my favorite tour in New Orleans. Walking through the house is like walking back in time.
The grounds are beautiful and so much history! The tour guide was very good and very informative!
Walking into the slave cabins was a sobering experience. I would recommend this without a doubt!!
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Posted On : 2021-07-03 00:03:17
Posted By : Gerry_B
Due to a rain storm and a lady falling our tour was very short for the price. The tour guide attended to the lady that fell. Group was left to entertain theirselves in the museum which one could tour on their own. No refund or discount was offered.
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Posted On : 2019-08-22 13:58:00
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