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St. Joseph Plantation
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St. Joseph Plantation

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St. Joseph Plantation
4.5
#2 of 9 things to do in Vacherie
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9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Monday
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Thursday
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Sunday
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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St. Joseph is open for tours! We are following proper CDC guidelines to ensure your visit is safe and enjoyable. Please visit our website for details at www.stjosephplantation.com. Enjoy a relaxed tour or the St. Joseph home and grounds. Learn about sugar farming in rural South Louisiana, and about all those who contributed to the home and land since its beginning. St. Joseph has also been the home of several film and TV projects, including "Queen Sugar", "12 Years a Slave", "Mudbound", "Underground", and more. We are open 7 days a week from 9:30a-4p with 7 tour options available each day.
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Alison Sims
Virginia Beach, VA8 contributions
Felicity Plantation Tour with Mrs. Sylvia
Oct 2023 • Couples
We toured St. Joseph plantation last year and loved it so much we decided to come back when the sister grounds, Felicity Plantation, re-opened after Hurricane Ida. Mrs. Sylvia took us on the tour (one she wrote and put together herself for the plantation) and it was absolutely wonderful. St. Joseph & Felicity are family owned/run and the feel of the tour is much preferred to than other larger plantations on river road. Family stories are shared alongside historical details and merge into a visit that makes you feel and understand what it was like living in the home. Both are also filled with filming locations for many movies and tv shows which was cool to see and recognize. Absolutely terrific! Thank you Mrs. Sylvia.
Written 19 October 2023
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sdp34
Fort Lauderdale, FL93 contributions
Great Tour of Felicity Plantation with Jacob as our Guide
Sep 2023 • Friends
A group of 8 of us did the Felicity Plantation house tour and not St. Joseph's as we were pressed for time. It is very beautiful and worth the money. The tour guide, Jacob was amazing. He was extremely knowledgeable and really went above and beyond. Felicity is close to Oak Alley Plantation and you can easily do both those plantations in the same day. There is AC in the house which definitely made it more enjoyable in the heat of summer. There were numerous movies and TV shows filmed there-including the Roots remake, Skeleton Key and Queen Sugar. As a side note, they offer a tour of both St. Joseph and Felicity as they are "sister" plantations although we only had time for one. You will check in for your tour at St. Jospehs plantation and are able to buy a bottle of water there. Then you drive from St. Joseph's to Felicity which is about 2 mins down the road.
Written 11 September 2023
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chnalvr
Seattle, WA43 contributions
Beautiful grounds and main house. More information about the enslaved people is needed.
Jul 2023 • Solo
I visited both St. Joseph and Felicity plantations on a combined ticket and tour. The houses and grounds are in excellent condition. My tour guide was very flexible, willing to answer every one of my numerous questions. The one part of both tours that could be improved upon is including much more information and personal stories of the enslaved people who toiled on both properties, rather than so much information about the enslavers.
Written 14 August 2023
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Kean S
Oak Point, TX18 contributions
Visit both St. Joseph and Felicity!
Jul 2023 • Friends
Our docent, Seth, was very knowledgeable and an excellent guide for both, St. Joseph and Felicity, Plantation homes. His background as a Louisiana native and a scholar of history increased our enjoyment.
Review of: Sugar Plantation Tour
Written 3 July 2023
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Jewel R
15 contributions
Personalized experience, beautiful property
Jun 2023
This was the second time I have visited the property and have loved it both times. I believe this is such a gem. We were the only ones in our tour group and had plenty of time to ask questions with our friendly and knowledgeable guide. The previous time I was there, it was the same and our guide was a family member who remembered visits to property when her family lived there in the past. I would highly recommend St. Joseph's and Felicity.
Review of: Sugar Plantation Tour
Written 20 June 2023
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Regina N
12 contributions
Must see ones
Jun 2023 • Solo
The tour was good, got a lot of information. One of the family member was the gids. Telling about her family. Also films and series, just location plantage to film there.
It's sad that slavery and everything really happened until 1977.
Review of: Sugar Plantation Tour
Written 14 June 2023
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Stu B
Columbia, MD233 contributions
Much more information needs to be offered
Apr 2023 • Couples
As a life long student of history, I was disappointed in our tour. To me, the tour discussed the business of sugar production, the ways and means of the various owners, but very little about on whose backs the wealth was amassed. There was discussion of the antebellum period, and from 1877 onward. What happened at the end of the Civil War, and what happened to the house and grounds during Reconstruction? Our guide was knowledgeable about the family, and the family reunions on the property at certain times of the year. But very little about the slaves, their conditions, etc. More needs to be provided.
Written 13 April 2023
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Hally W
6 contributions
Sweet Tour at a Sugar Plantation!
Mar 2023
My husband and I have visited most of the New Orleans plantations, having traveled to NOLA several times over the years. This was our first time to St. Joseph. We took my parents with us, as this was their first visit to New Orleans. We enjoyed the video about the process of farming sugar cane; my parents are farmers. And, we very much enjoyed the tour by a native of the area. The tour group was small; it was just us four. We enjoyed the pace and the knowledge of the guide, and we appreciated that this plantation is still working and owned entirely by family members. We watched a movie later that evening that had been partially filmed there. While St. Joseph is less grand, the experience was very personal and the information better than that shared by one of the very large ones nearby.
Review of: Sugar Plantation Tour
Written 26 March 2023
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Jeanne P
3 contributions
Great tour
Mar 2023 • Friends
We had an excellent guide, she was so knowledgeable about the history. It was very interesting, not your typical grand plantation, but worth the time to go through it.
Written 14 March 2023
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Andrea C
San Antonio, TX4 contributions
Lovely place, Lovely staff
Oct 2022
I had to reschedule my visit. The staff was very friendly and made the change without a problem.

Each plantation along River Road has a unique story. St. Joseph's was different because the planation had never gone into complete disrepair like most and the sugar plantation was still family run. The tour guide was very knowledgeable and thorough. The weather beautiful.

On the negative side, I felt like they glossed over the harshness of slavery and the video they make you watch at the beginning is part How it Works, part self-promotion.
Review of: Sugar Plantation Tour
Written 2 November 2022
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