Plantations

This is the main entrance to Oak Alley. A very beautiful setting. Unfortunately for us there were several hundred cars there for a craft fair.

Tam, waiting for the tour to being at Evergreen Plantation

Back view of Evergreen Plantation

One of a few guest housed on the property.

The outdoor kitchen behind the main house.

A sun-dial in the center of the backyard garden

The Kitchen

The front yard of the plantation.

Two stairways were used to enter the house; one for women and one for men. This was apparently a French custom

The original house was built around 1790 and the property was worked by German farmers around 1730.

The path behind the house leading to the Slave Quarters and the Alley of Trees

The beautiful oak alley leading to the site of the sugar factory and the slave cabins was reputedly planted during the Civil War by a black woman, although her name is lost to history.

Slave Cabins

View from the slave cabins back toward the main house and the fields

Clayton and Georgia, Tam, Nell and Gus and I

Took this shot from the car as we were passing by. The plantation was nestled between a tank farm and the road.

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