Plantations & Historic Sites
Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site
12501 LA-10, St Francisville, LA 70775 (25 min drive)
Open 7 Days a Week, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Tours of the house are on the hour.
Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site is an 8,000-square-foot historic home and former plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States. Built-in 1835 by the slaveholders Daniel and Martha Turnbull, it is one of the most documented and intact plantation complexes in the South and is known for its extensive formal gardens surrounding the house.
The Myrtles Plantation
7747 US-61, St Francisville, LA 70775 (23 min drive)
(225) 635-6277
The Myrtles Plantation is a historic home and former antebellum plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States. Built-in 1796 by General David Bradford, it is touted as “one of America’s most haunted homes.” There are a variety of legends surrounding the Myrtles.
Daily Tours
Open 7 Days a Week, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Audubon State Historic Site
11788 LA-965, St Francisville, LA 70775 (23 min drive)
(225) 635-3739
Audubon State Historic Site is a state park property in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, between St. Francisville and Jackson. It is the location where noted ornithologist and artist John James Audubon spent the summer of 1821. Visitors come to see the Oakley Plantation house, where Audubon lived at the time, and the surrounding plantation grounds. A portion of the 100-acre site contains the forest, which served as a setting for many of the 32 Birds of America paintings that Audubon created or began while at Oakley.
Grace Church Of West Feliciana
11621 Ferdinand St, St Francisville, LA 70775
(25 min drive)
(225) 635-4065
http://www.gracechurchwfp.org/
Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church at St. Francisville, West FelicianaParish, Louisiana. The congregation was organized in 1827. The present church was completed in 1860, but it was heavily damaged by Union gunboats in 1863 during the Civil War. The church's current appearance dates to its repair and rebuilding in 1893. The organ dates to 1860. The church is one of the state's oldest Protestant churches
Monday to Friday, 8 am to 4 pm
Saturday & Sunday Closed for Touring
Afton Villa Gardens
9347 US-61, St Francisville, LA 70775 (29 min drive)
(844) 827-9789
Garden, gothic revival architecture, and park.
Although a fire in 1963 destroyed the Gothicantebellum mansion, the gardens at Afton Villa are among the most picturesque in the state.
Open 7 Days a Week, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Centenary State Historic Site
3522 College St, Jackson, LA 70748 (32 min drive)
(225) 634-7925
Thursday to Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm