2014 Information Coming Soon

Make your calendar on March 14, 15 & 16, 2014 for the next Audubon Pilgrimage.  Present web site information is from the 2013 event.  Visit back soon for the 2014 Audubon Pilgrimage information.

Historic Plantation Tours

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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.

  • Audubon SHS

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    Audubon State Historic Site


    Oakley House

    Oakley was built by a Scot, James Pirrie, whose wife Lucy hired Audubon as a tutor for their daughter Eliza. When the artist arrived in June 1821, the "hall and parlor" house with its cooling jalousies was at its prime. Since 1947 it has been the centerpiece of Audubon State Historic Site.

  • Beechwood

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    Beechwood Plantation

    Beechwood is a charming country cottage on the site of early pioneer Alexander Stirling’s original home, the scene for gatherings of Anglo settlers fomenting rebellion against the Spanish regime in 1810. In the peaceful cemetery lies Eliza Pirrie, whose need of a tutor brought Audubon to the parish in 1821. This home is currently owned by Mary Frances Brandon Smart and family.

  • Catalpa

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    Catalpa Plantation

    CATALPA, center of a plantation established by William J. Fort in the opening years of the 19th century, is reached by an elliptical oak alley considered the only one of its kind in the state. Its occupants descend from the Forts as well as the families of Rosedown and Oakley Plantations, and it is filled with superb family treasures. Presently owned by Mary Fort Thompson and family .

  • Evergreenzine

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    Evergreenzine Home

    EVERGREENZINE was built in 1885 by Adolph Teutsch, one of many German Jewish immigrants whose mercantile skills and credit access proved so valuable to the South’s struggling post-war agrarian society. Its name is Yiddish for “surrounded by greenery,” and its lush landscaping insulates this fine Victorian townhouse from the bustle of St. Francisville’s Historic District. Norman and Beth Ferachi own Evergreenzine today.

  • Rosedown SHS

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    Rosedown Plantation

    State Historic Site

    Rosedown, white and sturdy at the end of its live oak allee', was built in 1834 by Daniel Turnbull and his wife Martha Barrow, whose pride was the twenty-seven acre garden she developed and cared for until her death in 1896.  Rosedown is now an Historic Landmark owned by the state of Louisiana.

  • Wakefield

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    Wakefield Plantation

    Wakfield Plantation was begun by Lewis Stirling in 1834 as a grand 2½-story Greek Revival house, then its roof was raised and the second story removed in an estate division in 1877. Among the area’s earliest settlers, the Stirlings had close connections with Audubon and the families at Catalpa, Beechwood, Oakley and Rosedown Plantations. Today owners Dr. Eugene and Jolie Berry raise registered longhorns.

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    Plantation Photos

    View a sampling of photographs from Historic homes and plantations on 2013 Audubon Pilgrimage Tours.

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