Oak Alley Plantation New Orleans Louisiana
Stewart spotted an amazing avenue of live oaks leading to a declining antebellum mansion.
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The foundation is committed to the mission created by the last resident owner josephine armstrong stewart. The slavery at oak alley exhibit civil war exhibit sugarcane theater and big house offer an experience as compelling as the plantation s 25 historic acres and 300 year old allee of oaks. This was her first glimpse of her future home oak alley plantation. On a trip up the mississippi river mrs.
A keepsake book highlighting the landscape and architecture of oak alley plantation. Oak alley plantation is a historic plantation located on the west bank of the mississippi river in the community of vacherie st.