WALLACE, La. — Just inside the levee holding back the mighty Mississippi River, there is a quiet stillness in the land and a story that is still unfolding after more than two and a half centuries. The ...

Whitney operated from 1752 to 1975 and produced the principal cash crops of indigo, sugar and rice.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United State's South, plantation homes and properties are major attractions for both tourists and history buffs, and these ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The rooms inside Woodland Plantation in LaPlace are nearly bare, and for good reason. There’s nothing to hide the whole history of what plantation life was. “They think ...

DARROW, La. — The grand old homes that sit along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — an area called Plantation Country — are filled with tales that stretch back hundreds of ...

In the wake of the burning of Nottoway "Plantation & Resort," there has been a flurry of conversation all over social media about the use - if any - of plantations. I recently wrote about several ...

Local author, Keith Smith, who was born in Pepeekeo, Hawai‘i, and raised in the plantation town of Kilauea, Kaua‘i, during the 1950s and 1960s, where his father, Ernest Smith, was Kilauea Plantation ...