Note: Mary flew from Baton Rouge Airport, Louisiana on March 12 to her home in California. I’m hoping to get her back with me by mid-April. My current plans are to stay here for a few days and then start SLOWLY drifting north along the Mississippi River to Memphis, Tennessee where I’ll then turn northeast heading for New England. Can’t go north too fast because it’s still cold up there!
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The motorhome is currently parked at VFW Post #4224 in Baker, a few miles north of Baton Rouge.
Yesterday I drove the Bronco the about 10 miles to the West Baton Rouge Museum which you can read about by clicking their official website link…
http://www.westbatonrougemuseum.com/
It is an excellently done museum where they have a large main building and several other buildings that have been moved from the plantations to that location…
As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…
Gwen Laviolette was my individual tour guide. She’s a retired French language school teacher, born in St. Martinsville, Louisiana and has lived in the area most of her life. She is very knowledgeable and provided me with a lot of information which greatly added to my visit there…
The museum is actually located in Port Allen…directly across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge…is funded by the Parish and hence the name…West Baton Rouge Museum. You can read about Port Allen by clicking this Wikipedia link…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Allen,_Louisiana
Gwen told me that in the past in this area of Louisiana…sugar was king. In 1900 there were 26 sugar mills…the last one closed in 2005. You can read about and see photos of that mill by clicking this link…
http://www.westbatonrougemuseum.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73%3Acinclare-plantation&catid=42%3Ahistoric-markers&Itemid=54
Here’s an excellent link showing the remains of that mill…
http://abandonedbatonrouge.typepad.com/abandoned_baton_rouge/2010/04/cinclare-plantation-sugar-mill.html
A 22′ model of a sugar mill…
Here are some more photos that I took…
The Aillet House is an example of a small Creole plantation house…circa 1830…
As it once looked…
The interior of a slave cabin…
The interior of a plantation store…
Photos from inside the store…
Mr. Kirby is the head man of maintenance at the museum…
Other photos in the museum…
Like I said earlier…a great museum…admission for seniors is only $2. A good value for the experience. Highly recommended if you find yourself in this area.
Enjoying interesting local museums is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!
The red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of Louisiana. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…
Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein
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Wohhhhhh! Nice one:)