Month: April 2006

Posted in Travel

Plantation Homes

Posted on by Coni Dubois

Plantation Homes I’ve Visited
 
Just click the name to go to their website
 
Post Office Box 950
2646 Hwy. 44 (River Road)
Saint John the Baptist Parish
Garyville, Louisiana 70051-0950

Phone: 985/535-2341
Fax: 985/535-5450
Toll Free 1 (888) 509-1756

 

Was one of the prettiest plantation homes
I’ve ever seen!
Photo’s in: *My Louisiana*
 

Oak Alley Plantation, Restaurant & Inn •–
3645 Highway 18 (Great River Road) •– Vacherie, Louisiana USA 70090
Phone: (225) 265-2151 or 1-800-44ALLEY •– Fax: (225) 265-7035 •–
E-mail: ContactUs@OakAlleyPlantation.com

 

This is a beautiful home!
Lined with 28 live oak trees…just breathetaking!
Photo’s in: *My Louisiana*
 
Laurel Valley Village/Plantation Museum and Country Store
595 Hwy. 308 Thibodaux, LA 70301
(985) 447-2902 to arrange tours
(985) 446-7456 -Country Store
This is located in my home town of Thibodaux
I love the quiet but eerie drive thru this plantation~
Photo’s in: *My Louisiana*
 
 
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Swamp Garden/ Morgan City

Posted on by Coni Dubois

Morgan City Swamp Garden
725 Myrtle Street,
 Morgan City, LA 70380
(985) 384-3343
Cost: $4.00
 
Went on 4/21/06
Was a beautiful tour,
Had Indian huts and
a real boat house showing cajun living
from the old days.
One of my favorites was
the 600 year old Cypress!
Pictures in: "My Louisiana"
 
 
Description: A walking guided tour through
3.5 acres of natural swamp depicting life
in the great Atchafalaya Swamp and animals
native to the swamp.
 
Posted in Travel

Brownell Memorial & Carillon Towers/ Morgan City

Posted on by Coni Dubois

Brownell Memorial & Carillon Tower
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays
3559 Hwy 70
Morgan City, LA 70380
Phone (985) 384-2283
 
I went on 4/20/06
Had a wonderful walk and was able to hear the Carillon Bells
play 2 different songs….was very beautiful
Pictures in *My Louisiana Album*
 
The Largest (bourdon) bell contains the inscription:
"This Carillon Given by Mrs. Claire H, Brownell
In Loving Memory of her parents,
Charles Horace Brownell &
Frances Pierson Brownell"
 
Verses of the Twenty-Thirld Psalms are engraved
on the next largest 13 bells.
 
Description:
A 9.5 acre park in a natural setting located next to Lake Palourde.
The 106 ft. tall carillon tower contains 61 bronze bells,
One of the world’s largest and finest cast-bell Carillons,
which were cast in Holland,
representing five full chromatic octaves,
range in weight from 18 pounds for the smallest to
4730 pounds for the largest. 
 
The park is a designated bird sanctuary.

Info from Louisiana Office of Tourism 

& Brownell Memorial park pamplet