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 TOUR # 4 EAST:  Full Day East Plantation Tour (Destrehan, San Francisco, and Houmas House, Lunch at The Cabin)

 $140/person

 9:00AM – 5:00PM

     The East Plantation tour will amaze you.  Destrehan is the oldest documented plantation home in the lower Mississippi Valley.  You will be chaperoned around the house by a person dressed in historically accurate costume, and you will see demonstrations of candle making and dyeing indigo.  San Francisco Plantation was built in 1856 it incorporates five artistically hand painted ceilings, faux marbling, and faux wood graining throughout and antique furniture.  Houmas House will astound you with it's beautiful gardens.  In 1964, "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" was filmed in there, and "All My Children" in 1981.  You will enjoy lunch at The Cabin Restaurant, where lunch will be served in 100 year old slave cabins.  There is a selection of Po-Boys, world famous Chicken, Andouille Gumbo, and specially prepared seafood.

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Houmas House

 

San Francisco Plantation

 

San Francisco Plantation In Garyville on The Mississippi River

San Francisco Plantation - Built To Resemble A Gothic-Style Steamboat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The oldest plantation in the lower Mississippi Valley

Destrehan Plantation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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