Group Tours

Frogmore is the only cotton plantation in the South offering a comprehensive guided tour that fully explains the causes and effects of change on a working cotton plantation from the 1700's through today.  Frogmore is a one-of-a-kind tour since the owners are the costumed guides along with their staff.  Visitors receive the most thorough explanation of slave culture and the plantation system in America, based on former slave narratives and extensive archives while viewing the tools and antiques in the authentically restored dependency buildings on the property. 

A golf cart for handicapped persons and complimentary beverages are included in all adult group tours.   

FROGMORE COTTON PLANTATION & GINS IS THE ONLY PLANTATION OR HISTORICAL ATTRACTION WHERE YOUR GROUPS CAN ACTUALLY PICK COTTON (JULY - APRIL)

For details on group tours and special international rates contact Lynette or Buddy Tanner, owners at 318-757-2453 or by email. Admissions can be paid upon arrival, prepaid, or by credit card (AMEX, Master Card, VISA, Discover). Advanced reservations required for groups of ten or more.

Group Tour Info

• Each bus/group is personally welcomed and bidded farewell by (owners) Buddy & Lynette Tanner.
• On-site videos and translations in English, French and German
• Authentically furnished slave row cabins dating to 1810
• Wheelchair accessible and golf cart available
• Beverages offered mid-way through tour. Homemade lemonade or ice water in warm weather and hot tea, coffee, or water in cool weather.

Three Superior Tour Options

All give visitors a comprehensive understanding of changes in the South.

• Our comment cards from visitors on Tauck, Globus/Archer, Delta Queen Steamboat Co., Elderhostel, World Wide Country Tours, Destinations America and numerous others are BETTER than any other destination on their itineraries.
• The owners (Buddy & Lynette Tanner) not only created the tours but are guides & offer true southern hospitality, personal attention, and extensive knowledge of the subject matter.
• Every tour operator that has visited has rebooked.

The Cotton Plantation Tour

This tour compares and contrasts a working cotton plantation from 1790 through today. Visitors experience slave culture, sharecropping, & modern technology. Owners & guides give superior historical narration. Frogmore offers both a rare antique steam gin and high-tech modern gin along with 19 antebellum outbuildings. Eight are furnished and visited during the tour.
WE HAVE COTTON TO PICK DURING THE TOUR.
Beverage included.

Tour Duration: 1 1/2 to 2 hrs.
Golf cart for handicapped.
Group rate $10 per person.

The Delta Music Tour

This tour takes visitors on a journey of the South through song. Seated in a rare 1800's plantation church with original pews, visitors listen to outstanding vocalists and superior historical narration that relates the trials and triumphs of life on a plantation. The singing and narrations continue through the furnished cabins in the quarters. After refreshments in the plantation store, a step-on-guide accompanies your group to the State of Louisiana Delta Music Museum. Enroute to Ferriday, your group listens to specially recorded blues, ragtime and jazz while your guide highlights the artists and changes in style for each genre. After arrival to the music museum, your are greeted by the director who gives you a guided tour while relating intimate stories about Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, Aaron Neville, Conway Twitty, Percy Sledge and other Delta musicians featured in the museum. Listen to their famous Delta songs.

Tour Duration: 2 hrs. 15 minutes

Optional pricing: superior narration with live vocalists $14 (Min. qty. 25 persons) or: superior narration with CD music $10 (No minimum necessary)

Music, Mistresses, & Marriage

This enticing tour takes your group to Stanton Hall, a grand Natchez town home, to meet the bride-to-be and help her finalize her plans for an elite, antebellum wedding. Choose her musical selections; listen to wedding tidbits & wealthy planter social customs; then travel on to Frogmore to experience a journey of the South through song. Seated in a rare 1800's plantation church with original pews, visitors listen to the mistress of Frogmore and two outstanding vocalists narrate and sing the trials and triumphs of life on a plantation. The singing and narrations continue through the furnished cabins in the quarters. After the musical presentation, the guests participate in a slave wedding from the archives and parade "cakewalk" style to the plantation store for refreshments. A step-on-guide escorts your group the entire tour with "music & mistress" lore. Enroute back to Natchez your group continues the musical journey listening to specially recorded blues, ragtime and jazz while the guide highlights the artists and changes in style for each genre.

Tour Duration: 3 hrs. Pricing: $32 per person Minimum qty. 25 persons

All are professional, thorough, and FUN!