HOME TOURS
Throughout the years men from elsewhere have come to West Feliciana. Their reasons for coming were as varied as the houses they built; homes that can be seen as monuments to the lives they made for themselves here.
GARDENS TOURS
GARDENS
The cluster of notable 19th-century gardens in West Feliciana are outstanding examples of what unlimited time, wealth, labor, and horticultural knowledge, combined with the rich loess soil and a happy climate, could produce in antebellum culture. These gardens remain monuments to past glories and to the hardiness of plantings.
CHURCH TOURS
CHURCHES
Churches were monuments of order in the disorderly frontier landscape. Throughout the 19th century the settlers strained to build and support them.
CEMETERY TOUR
CEMETERY TOURS
The peaceful dead of Grace Churchyard stand beside their handsome tombstones and tell their stories,
ENTERTAINMENT
EVENTS Daytime Revel on Royal Street, night social
Welcome . . .
The Annual Pilgrimage is dedicated to the memory of John James Audubon, who set himself the task of painting all the birds in America. Audubon painted no less than 80 of his famous folios here. The wooded blufflands excited his imagination; the early settlers who built homes in this wilderness became his friends and supporters. Oakley, where Audubon came to tutor Eliza Pirrie in 1821, is the centerpiece of the Audubon State Historic Site. The West Feliciana Historical Society stages the Pilgrimage to share with visitors the history of Audubon's Happy Land.
John J Audubon
John James Audubon, volatile Frenchman, talented artist, unkempt wanderer, and trying husband, set himself the task of painting all the Birds of America. He was West Feliciana Parish’s most famous visitor, and it is to him that the Audubon Pilgrimages are dedicated.
A high-end antiques show and sale will be featured again on this year's tour. Select antiques dealers will be housed in three locations in the historic district: Feliciana Masonic Lodge on Proserity, Market Hall on Royal Street, and Jackson Hall on Ferdinand Street.
