Museum Name: Destrehan Plantation
Schedule: Students tours 10 a.m. – 4p.m. Daily
Established: Opened for tours 1972, Big House was built in 1787 – It is the oldest plantation house on the lower Mississippi River Valley
Address: 13034 River Road , Destrehan, LA
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 5, Destrehan , LA 70047
Phone Number:
Main Office & Education Office: 985-764-9315
Toll Free: 1-877-453-209
Museum Gift Shop: 985-764-8785
Fax Number: 985-725-1929
Email:
Main Office: destplan@aol.com
Education Office: destreheitage@aol.com
Director:
Nancy J. Robert, Executive Director
Angela Matherne - Education Coordinator
Website: www.destrehanplantation.org
Focus:
1.Self-sufficient life on a Louisiana plantation during the colonial Era of Louisiana
2. The Native American, European, and African-American cultural, economic, and political influences in early Louisiana
Ages: All age levels – The tour is tailored by the educator coordinator to the grade level of the students
Costs: $5 for students, $8 for adults, 1 comp adult/20 students
Notes:
1. Classroom materials can be provided upon request by teachers
•  Site is wheelchair accessible, picnic area, lunch can be catered
•  Just 20 minutes from New Orleans , 1 hour from Baton Rouge
•  Tours are given by interpreters in authentically recreated attire
The site has ample area for student bands or choruses to perform

Major Exhibits
1. 1811 Slave Revolt,

•  Jefferson Document Room-

This room contains an original document dated Jan 16, 1806 signed by Thomas Jefferson naming Jean Noel Destrehan ( an original owner of the house) as a major political leader of colonial LA

•  Slave Cabins

•  Overseer's House

•  Wash house

Class Trip Programs
The Heritage Education Program at Destrehan Plantation
To book a student trip contact the education coordinator, Angela Matherne. Students' visit to Destrehan Plantation include a grade level appropriate guided tour of the big house by the education coordinator. The house is interpreting the 1840's of the Greek Revival style. Each day a different folk-life demonstration is presented depicting the self-sufficient life on a southern plantation is early & colonial Louisiana . The purpose of the demonstrations is to give students the opportunity to explore the African, European and Native American cultural, economic and political influence in Louisiana . These demonstrations include open hearth cooking, indigo dyeing, bousillage construction, candle making, 18 th & 19 th century carpentry, herbal healing of early African Americans, personal hygiene of the past, and historical sugar refining. The plantation site consist of the big house, an overseer's house, washhouse, slave cabins, a 1820's mule barn, smoke house and privy.

Class Trip Pricing: Same as cost above