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78 tours across 17 themes.

Avoyelles Heritage Drive
Arts & Ideas — The LSU Corridor
Antebellum Mansions Tour
The Plantation Economy

Antebellum Mansions Tour

Vicksburg's mansions are not architecture, they are siege evidence. McRaven stacks 1797 frontier cottage, 1836 empire, and 1849 Greek Revival in one structure. Cedar Grove still has the Union cannonball lodged in its parlor wall. The Balfours hosted the Confederate Christmas ball on December 17, 1862 — a courier interrupted the dancing to announce Sherman's gunboats on the Yazoo. Duff Green served as a hospital for both armies. Anchuca housed Jefferson Davis's brother Joseph. The walls remember the 47 days.

Half day 4 stops3 miles (driving between stops)
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Louisiana History

Wild Places

Arts & Literary

Cajun & Creole

The Plantation Economy

Civil Rights

Industry & Infrastructure

Jazz & the Blues

Before Contact

Cities of the Dead

The Civil War

Civil War Corridor

Food & Drink

Hurricane Country

Louisiana's Immigrant Waves

Mississippi Nature Corridor

West Florida Republic