Crescent City Tours provides Whitney Plantation Tours from New Orleans that include transportation.
The Whitney Plantation is unique among the many plantations found on River Road. This is because the Whitney Plantation tour from New Orleans is designed to exclusively capture and retell the history of the enslaved people who lived on the property. The Whitney Plantation is located 70 miles away from New Orleans, it is approximately a 1 hour and 10 minute drive from the French Quarter.
The ground transportation for the Whitney Plantation tour from New Orleans will be handled by Crescent City Tours. The driver will meet you at the front of your accommodations for pickup service. We kindly ask that you are present 10 minutes before the time of your pickup to ensure a smooth process.
Also, it is important to note that the Whitney Plantation Tour is self guided with a headset. You will explore the grounds of the Whitney Plantation learning about the lives of enslaved people that lived on the property from previous years. The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and once it concludes you will have 30 minutes to view the gift shop, use restrooms, and grab snacks.
The Whitney Plantation has had a long and tumultuous 250 year history. The plantation was originally titled the Habitation Heidel, or Heidel Plantation, and it was named after its owner Ambroise Heidel. Ambroise Heidel had owned approximately 20 enslaved Africans when he created the plantation. The Heidel family, as German immigrants, had to adapt to the ways of early French Louisiana culture. The Whitney Plantation was originally an Indigo plantation but made the switch to sugar in the late 1700’s. Sugar crops played an important role in the development of Southern Louisiana, due to its lucrative profits. Sugar was also a very demanding crop being intensely labor intensive. Slaves who were sold to Southern Louisiana during this time considered it a death sentence as they knew the intense demands of farming sugar. Now, the plantation serves as a humbling reminder of the brutal past of slavery and how we must remember our past and give thanks to those enslaved people who sacrificed their lives to develop our nation.
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