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

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 were monuments of order in the disorderly frontier landscape. Throughout the 19th century the settlers strained to build and support them.

 

CEMETERY TOUR

The peaceful dead of Grace Churchyard stand beside their handsome tombstones and tell their stories.
 

ANTIQUE SHOW

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.
 

ENTERTAINMENT

Daytime Revel on Royal Street, night social, Light up the Night.
 
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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.

Rosedown Garden Fountain

Rosedown Gardens

The 28-acre gardens begun by Martha Turnbull in 1836 were tended by her in good time and bad until her death in 1896. In 1957 Catherine Fondren Underwood began a restoration lasting 40 years. Today the gardens are part of a State Historic Site.


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Oak Arch Entrance at Afton Villa Gardens
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Afton Villa Gardens

Testament to the tenacity as well as the fragility of historic settings, Afton Villa’s gardens have long outlived the flamboyant mansion they were designed to complement. Particularly spectacular in the springtime, the gardens are one of the features on the Audubon Pilgrimage March 19, 20 and 21, 2010, as the West Feliciana Historical Society opens the doors to antebellum mansions and glorious gardens in celebration of Audubon’s stay in the parish.

 
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