The Big House, seen in the movie “Django Unchained.” Raised French Creole style cottage was built of masonry and cypress in the late 18th century. It is one of the earliest and best preserved Creole plantation houses standing on River Road. Sometime prior to 1815, the Big House was expanded to its present configuration with seven rooms on each level, plus a full-length gallery across the front and an open loggia facing the rear. This is also one of the very few historic American houses known to have received decorative wall paintings on both its exterior and interior. Source: Wikipedia
The Whitney Plantation stands apart as one of the few sites dedicated to telling the story from the perspective of the enslaved. Visitors encounter powerful monuments and first-person accounts that reveal the relentless brutality faced by those forced to work the sugar fields. Historic records detail whippings, family separations, and a daily struggle for survival. Today, the Whitney Plantation’s museum and memorial preserve these stories, confronting visitors with the reality of slavery’s human cost.
