Louisiana Plantation Homes

First producing indigo and later producing cotton and sugarcane, plantations in Louisiana produced bounteous harvest that brought great wealth to their owners and ushered in more than a century of opulent mansion building.

Barely two decades after Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, led the first band of settlers to Louisiana in 1699, the plantation idea began to take root. Fertile soil, a mild climate, and the transport potential of the Mississippi River were the resources that allowed men of vision, initiative, and determination to accumulate untold wealth. These resources also enabled them to construct extravagant mansions that would survive economic upheavals, civil war and natural disasters.

Louisiana Plantation Homes pays homage to 76 of Louisiana's most prized plantation homes and settlements. 160 pages.