In 1869, American actor Joseph Jefferson purchased “Orange Island,” as it was known at the time of the purchase, which sat atop a salt dome on Lake Peigneur to use as his winter home and hunting…

From an antebellum plantation in the mid nineteenth century to a small family farm in the early twenty-first century, the old Rose Hill Plantation in now the beautiful Queen's Ranch.

Episcopal School of Acadiana resides on the beautiful mid-nineteenth century sugar plantation, Oasis Plantation, sitting along side the sugar cane and underneath the enormous oak trees covering the…