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We are open March 8-November 15. Please see our hours of operation on this website. We offer scheduled musical tours through Dec. 31, 2013. Individual visitors may attend on these dates. Come experience the hand picking of old, along with the life of slaves and sharecroppers through the 1960's, and then contrast the historical with the computerization of today. PLEASE MAKE A RESERVATION IF YOU DESIRE our new tour entitled THE PLANTATION CIVIL WAR: Challenges and Changes. This tour requires a separate guide, and it is helpful for us to know in advance. Text includes political, economic, social, and racial causes of the war; Union army mandates and occupation on area plantations, federal corral in Natchez for freed slaves, confederate guerrilla activity against planters, and the effects of the war on the women and children left behind, along with plantation crops, gins, owners, and freed slaves. Phone 318-757-2453 for more information.
Contrast a working cotton plantation of the early 1800's with a modern cotton plantation and gin of today. Follow the early Natchez planters and their slaves through an evolution from the wilderness to a thriving 1850's cotton plantation, and then beyond the War Between the States to a struggling new way of life.
Listen to the slave customs, secret music, and their surprising relationships with the master, mistress, and overseer. Walk through authentically furnished slave quarters, rare steam gin, and other plantation dependencies.
Then journey forward to the present as you tour an 1800 acre cotton plantation with a computerized 900 bales-per-day cotton gin. Frogmore is the only tour of its kind in the South and receives rave reviews by all attendees. We have been selected by Rand McNally as a "Must See Site" in the South/Southeast and by AAA Southern Traveler Magazine as one of the top three favorite attractions in the tri-states of Ark/La/Miss. Additionally, Frogmore won the Rural Tourism Award for the State of Louisiana and has been featured in Country Discoveries, AAA Southern Travelers, La. Cultural Vistas, Southern Living, along with many other magazines and PBS documentaries.
We are handicapped accessible and have a golf cart for the disabled.
Translations for French and German visitors include professional videos filmed on site of both historical and modern details.
Located in Louisiana, just across the Mississippi River at Natchez.
11054 Hwy 84
Frogmore, LA 71334
318-757-2453 or 757-3333
frogmore@bayou.com
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