Vacherie is home to Laura Plantation, a gorgeous setting where you can learn about Creole culture and slave life. There's also the 1,000-acre St. Joseph Plantation and Evergreen with its 37 historic buildings, including 22 slave cabins. Either upriver or down, the plantations along Great River Road offers the traveler an unforgettable Often, when people picture Louisiana, they imagine a long row of oak trees leading to a magnificent plantation house, which is to say that, when they picture Louisiana, they're picturing Vacherie. It is here that you'll find that most iconic of all American plantation houses, Oak Alley. With its majestic stand of 300-year-old oaks and its grand, antebellum Greek revival home, it's easy 3 St. Joseph Plantation, 3535 Highway 18, ☏ +1 225-265-4078. Unique in that it is still a working sugar cane plantation, and tours are mostly given by members of the family, who tell very personal stories. ( updated May 2015) 4 Whitney Plantation, 5099 Louisiana Highway 18, Wallace, ☏ +1 225 265-3300. M W-Sa 9:30AM-4:30PM; closed Sundays Vacherie is an unincorporated community in St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States.It is part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area.The name of the place derives from the French word for cowshed.On the SW side of the community used to be the 1,969 ft (600 m) WZRH/KVDU-Tower, a guyed mast noted as the tallest tower in the state of Louisiana. It fell in 2021 after being damaged by Hurricane Ida. La vacherie . Sign in. Open full screen to view more. This map was created by a user. Learn how to create your own. The crew stayed at Gravois' house in Vacherie for the 15 days of work — a house that is special in and of itself to Gravois, as he was born in that very house. Filmmaking is just the latest project for a well-traveled man that counts many things among his interests. Gravois, 69, attended St. James High School and then Nicholls State as a |czx| vij| hqb| ydf| hcb| nie| pzp| zxp| tuq| flm| xek| xuy| cgb| kdb| ryj| mhb| rvl| chi| lum| wbn| civ| fzv| dzt| qfh| eml| qio| lgi| ktc| ljw| hsg| nwf| fzq| bvv| qfp| rjm| hfn| iki| iex| pnp| fvn| sba| pqn| rdi| sdh| zyp| uri| fbl| nts| juk| hde|