Whitney Plantation
National Register Of Historic Places · Wallace, Louisiana
The only museum in Louisiana built entirely around the experience of the people who were enslaved on it. A New Orleans lawyer named John Cummings bought the property in 1999, spent fifteen years and a great deal of his own money on research and restoration, and opened it to the public in 2014 — not as a house museum with a slavery exhibit attached, but as a memorial site where the house is the least of it. The names of a hundred and seven thousand people enslaved in Louisiana are cut into granite here. It is twenty minutes from Oak Alley and it is the one to do first.
5099 Louisiana Highway 18, Wallace, Louisiana, 70049, United States
Open most days with historic Tuesday closure and some holiday closures — check before travelling. The format has moved between guided-only and largely self-guided with an audio guide over the years, with guided tours available on a schedule; confirm which is running when you book. Admission is charged with reductions. The site advises that the content is not suitable for young children and applies a minimum age to some programming. About an hour from New Orleans on the Great River Road.
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