MAGNOLIA MOUND

This Creole plantation, built around 1791, is the oldest in the area. It has been restored as faithfully as possible, in the French Creole style, to make it a museum. Its walls were built using the "bousillage entre poteaux" method, a mixture of mud and Spanish moss that is dried between wooden beams. A foreman's house, a dovecote, a period kitchen and a vehicle shed are set in a garden of herbs and plants for harvesting. Cooking demonstrations are given from October to May.