A Tourist's Guide To West Feliciana Parish

About the Book

This is THE definitive guidebook to West Feliciana, Louisiana’s loveliest parish.  Carved from the mosquito-infested swampy wilderness by English settlers emigrating from the eastern seaboard right after the Revolutionary War, this area was the center of a cotton kingdom where a large percentage of America’s millionaires resided before the Civil War, its self--sufficient plantation communities noted not only for agricultural achievement in high yields of indigo, cotton and sugar cane, but also for high cultural standards as well, the immense mansions furnished with fine original oil paintings and libraries full of first-edition books, formal parlors gleaming with polished rosewood suites and music rooms with grand pianos and harps, dining rooms filled with the finest imported hand-painted china and polished silver and sparkling crystal, landscaped grounds with formal boxwood parterres and hundreds of spreading live oaks dripping with Spanish moss.  

On these pages the visitor learns the history, discovers which antebellum homes and glorious 19th-century gardens may be toured, decides where to eat and shop and stay, choosing from B&Bs in historic townhouses or countryside plantations, golf resorts or lakeside clubhouses.  Special events throughout the year, emergency contacts all travelers hope to never need but should have right at their fingertips just in case, recreational facilities through the steep hills and deep shady hollows of the Tunica Hills, an area unique in the South with rare plantlife and animals found nowhere else in the state, affording excellent hiking, birding, biking, hunting and other outdoor opportunities…you name it, the necessary information is included here, everything to enhance a visit and ensure that nothing is missed.  From the world’s largest bald cypress tree in the Cat Island Wildlife Refuge to the wildest show in the South at Angola’s famous prison rodeo, it’s all here in Anne Butler’s Tourist Guide To West Feliciana Parish, A Little Bit Of Heaven Right Here On Earth, written with care by a native-born professional author who knows, and shares, all the secrets.

About the Author

Anne Butler is the author of 14 books, ranging from children’s stories and cookbooks to histories and hair-raising nonfiction crime books of considerable cultural significance. She lives and works on a 1790’s plantation in south Louisiana.