Originally called the Haydel Plantation, the Whitney Plantation is the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery. The French-Creole Big House is one of the best-preserved Creole plantation houses in the area, and the detached kitchen on the property is the oldest in Louisiana.

There are a number of other buildings on the property as well, including a barn, a blacksmith shop, a church, a pigeon roosting house, and seven slave cabins. Other points of interest include a memorial dedicated to the people who were enslaved on the plantation and there are 40 statues of slave children.

5099 LA-18, Edgard, LA 70049, Phone: 225-265-3300, Map

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