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The Times (Shreveport) on MSN7mon
These five Louisiana plantations still exist, offering tours and preserving history
Located in Darrow, at 40136 LA-942, Houmas House Estate and Gardens ... due to claims that some plantations glamorize the South's problematic past, plantation homes and properties still serve ...
The Boston Globe1y
Facing America’s traumatic history head-on through tourism
DARROW, La. — The grand old homes that sit along ... narratives of a genteel antebellum South are being stripped away. Plantations along the serpentine River Road in Louisiana and throughout ...
The Washington Post2y
La. voters keep ‘slavery’ at Angola prison, once and still a plantation
When Isaac Franklin died in 1846, he owned a swath of plantations in central Louisiana — and at least 600 enslaved people. As king of the domestic slave trade, he got rich trafficking people ...
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Strong storms damage homes in Darrow; minor damage reported in other areas
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Storms that moved through the ... In Ascension Parish, about five homes were damaged from a possible tornado in Darrow along Highway 942, deputies said.