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Outside New Orleans is one of the most famous plantations. During this tour you will hear interesting stories about the house and the "war of northern aggression." Inside you will see interesting features like low door knobs...The Creole were people of small stature and this plantation was built to suit. Oak Alley is featured in many movies. Primary Colors and Interview with a Vampire to name a couple.
Built (1837-1839) by Jacques T Roman, this example of Greek Revival Architecture is famouse for it's 28 evenly spaced oak trees that are at least 100 years older than the "Big House."
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The Quarter:
New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville, and named for the regent of France, Philippe II, duc d'Orleans. It was a French colony until 1763 until it was transferred to the Spanish. However, in 1800, Spain returned it back to France. In 1803, New Orleans, as part of a little known transaction called the Louisiana Purchase, was sold by Napoleon I to the United States. It was the site of the Battle of New Orleans (1815) in the War of 1812.
The French Quarter is the only French Colonial and Spanish settlement left in the United States. It has been a continuous neighborhood since 1718. The quarter was designed as a French military-style city street plan, making New Orleans one of the first planned cities in America.
Voodoo:
The Laffer Curve suggests that, as taxes increase from low levels, tax revenue collected by the government also increases. It also shows that tax rates increasing after a certain point (T*) would cause people not to work as hard or not at all, thereby reducing tax revenue. President George HW Bush in 1980 referred to the Laffer Curve as "Voodoo Economics."
Well, we are not talking about supply-side economic theory here, just the real thing...Voodoo, baby, voodoo.
Voodoo and Hoodoo are taken very seriously in New Orleans. Voodoo and Hoodoo museums abound in the French Quarter and we recommend that you do stop in and check them out.
Opinions can differ about Voodoo and Hoodoo but basically, Voodoo can be defined as an organized religion combining elements of African Vodun and Roman Catholicism. Hoodoo on the other hand is folkloric magic comprised of handed-down traditions practiced primarily in Louisiana, sometimes referred to as 'New Orleans-style' Voodoo.
The most famous Voodoo queen is Marie Laveau. Born in 1794, She was the daughter of Charles Laveau, a wealthy white planter, and Darcantel Marguerite, a slave. She spent most of her life in New Orleans. Laveau was a free woman of color with African, Indian, French, and Spanish blood. She is known as the most famous and powerful Voodoo queen in the world. In fact, she named herself the "Pope of Voodoo." She was highly respected and equally feared. She was feared by the Catholic Church, where she attended mass every day. The church leaders gave her permission to hold rituals behind the church. Little of her history is documented as fact and is passed down from generations.
After a day in the Voodoo museums...stop in at the Central Grocery for a Muffaletta. Later, head across the river to see how the Mardi Gras floats are made...
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Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is loacted within the Garden District and both are accessible via the St. Charles Street Car. Lafayette No. 1 is famous for being in the novels “Mayfair Witches” and “Vampire” by Ann Rice. The movie “Interview With The Vampire” was filmed in a constructed a plywood “tomb” in an empty corner of the cemetery.
The group, "Save our Cemeteries Inc." has done an excellent job keeping the cemeteries from being neglected and offers tours if you are so inclined.
Due to the high water table people are buried above ground to keep the bodies from floating to the surface. Many of the people who are buried here died from Yellow Fever outbreaks.
Lafayette No. 1 is a municipal cemetery meaning that persons buried here are from many different religions.
Established in 1933 by the City of Lafayette The square was acquired from Cornelius Hurst and the cemetery was laid out by Benjamin Buisson, City Surveyor.
This cemetery was part of the Livaudais Plantation which had been subdivided into city squares in 1832.
The cemetery contains many fine and historic tombs, among them those of Samuel Jarvis Peters, Father of the New Orleans Public School System, and General Henry T. Hays, a distinguished confederate general.
The typical New Orleans burial vaults adjoining Washington Avenue were restored and Magnolia trees on the cross isle were replanted by the City of New Orleans.
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