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Houmas House Plantation and Gardens is so much more than just a tour of a grand antebellum estate. Experience the southern splendor of "The Sugar Palace" when you step into 16 rooms filled with period antiques and Louisiana artwork.

No other visual experience in America better exemplifies the “Old South” than this spectacular quarter mile of live oaks, circa 1839. Tours focus on the loves & tragedies of one of the most prominent plantation dynasties, typifying the idyllic lifestyle of their day.

Located in Belle Rose, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Circuit Grand Bayou is a motorsports facility, featuring a 1.8-mile Road Course, (Circuit Grand Bayou), an NHRA Drag Strip, (No Problem Raceway), and a 1/4-mile dirt/mud track, (The BEAST), -- all of which are available for use by the public. The tracks and facility are located an hour from the New Orleans International Airport and less than 45 minutes from Baton Rouge.

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The course, which provides championship 18-hole, semi-private, British-style golf with a Louisiana flair, covers 250 acres of what once was a sugar cane farm. The championship practice facility includes putting and chipping greens and a large driving range with target greens. A pro shop, golf carts, and restaurant are also available.

The Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest antebellum plantation houses in the south, was designed in 1857 and completed in 1859. The plantation is composed of 64 rooms, seven staircases, and five galleries. It survived the War Between the States, and has only recently become a hotel facility. Its decor features hand-carved marble mantles and intricate plaster friezework, brass and crystal chandeliers and mahogany stairways carpeted with velvet.