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DESTREHAN PLANTATION

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Destrehan Plantation is a historical destination rich estrehan Plantation is a historical destination rich
in French, Spanish and African cultures. We provide
students with grade appropriate tours of the plantation
home and its dependency buildings by a costumed
historical interpreter. Our grounds provide a picnic area
with a covered pavilion so students may spend a day at
our site.

e Heritage Education Program Features:
• Primary Sources
• Grade appropriate guided tours of the plantation home and its dependency building
• Grade appropriate guided tours of the plantation home and its dependency building
• Story telling of the free and enslaved families who lived on the plantation
• Folk-life demonstrations based on the skills and trades of men and women enslaved on the plantation
• Grade appropriate interactive discussions

At Destrehan Plantation, educators and students learn about the following:
• e construction of the manor house by a former slave
• Life on an indigo and sugar cane plantation in the 1700s and 1800s
• e role of this historical site in the largest slave rebellion in US History
• Destrehan’s contribution to the development of the rst Louisiana constitution
• e plantation’s use as a home for more than 700 newly freed slaves during the Civil War
• e history of the site as one of the rst oil re neries in St. Charles Parish
• e local community involvement that led to the formation of the River Road Historical Society
whose mission is to preserve history and provide education on Destrehan Plantation.

Established in 1787, Destrehan Plantation is a

French creole plantation and the oldest documented

plantation home in the lower Mississippi River
Valley. The plantation is located on historic River

Road less than 30 minutes from New Orleans and

10 minutes from the New Orleans International
Airport. The plantation is open daily from 9:00

am to 4:00 pm. Forty- ve minute guided tours are
available every half hour.

Destrehan Plantation
13034 River Road Destrehan, Louisiana 70047

Rachel Allemand, Heritage Education Coordinator
985-764-9315, ext. 102

destrehanplantation.org

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