March 23, 2013 - morning

Day 2 - New Orleans
Laura: A Creole Plantation

Still an operating sugar farm, built in 1805.

The tour was based on documents found in the French National Archives and also upon Laura's memories of the old plantation home. In these memoires she detailed 250 years of true-life stories of the Creole women, slaves and children who lived and worked here. We toured inside the big house where we saw the simple elegance by which they lived. Point of interest: there is no kitchen in the big house......

This is where the kitchen was - in the back yard.
All that is left is the outlining bricks and the animal pens.

 

 

The slave cabins still standing were built like duplexes - two families living side-by-side, under one roof, some living there still in 1977.

 

The garden is still there - well kept and blooming.

 

This is what sugar cane looks like.
Who knew that sugar cane was planted, by hand still today? 
It is planted lengthwise and new shoots sprout from each of the notches....
I guess we're not too old to learn something new!