Just a short drive from downtown, you’ll find Melrose Plantation, a National Historic Landmark with a fascinating history. Founded by Marie Thérèse Coincoin, a formerly enslaved woman who became a ...

A Louisiana plantation-turned-resort burns, prompting a reckoning Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved.

Flames ripped through a massive mansion in Louisiana, destroying much of the historic structure that was used as a plantation house when it was completed in 1859.

Louisiana authorities say the main building at a historic plantation is considered a total loss following a destructive fire.