Rosedown Plantation and St Francisville
National Historic Landmark · St Francisville, Louisiana
An 1835 house in the hills above the Mississippi at St Francisville with twenty-eight acres of formal garden around it, and the gardens are the reason to come. Martha Turnbull laid them out from 1836 and kept a diary of the work for fifty-nine years — it survives, which makes this one of the best-documented antebellum garden landscapes in America and lets the restoration be accurate rather than approximate. The wealth that paid for it came from cotton grown by enslaved people, and the state historic site says so. St Francisville itself is a small hill town worth an afternoon.
12501 Louisiana Highway 10, St Francisville, Louisiana, 70775, United States
A Louisiana State Historic Site with variable opening days — some state sites close early in the week, so check before travelling. The house is shown on guided tours at posted times; the gardens are self-guided and a cheaper grounds-only ticket is generally available. Admission is charged with reductions. The Audubon Pilgrimage in St Francisville falls in March. About 40 minutes north of Baton Rouge.
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