Gonzales, Louisiana

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Gonzales

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Gonzales.

22 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

• Ashland Plantation · 6.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine living like a 19th-century sugar baron! Ashland Plantation, also known as Belle Helene, offers a glimpse into that world. Built around 1841, this grand estate was the home of Duncan Farrar Kenner, a prominent…

• The Houmas · 6.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Pull over and listen to this – you're practically breathing the same air as sugar barons of old! The Houmas, now known as Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, was once a sprawling sugar plantation named after the Houma…

• Audubon Plantation · 8.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Take a look at the Audubon Plantation! This grand old house whispers tales of Louisiana's sugar cane past. The origins of Audubon Plantation are a bit of a mystery, but the mansion itself was completed around 1850. We…

• Bocage Plantation · 8.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Marvel at the Greek Revival architecture of this 1837 plantation house, a testament to the wealth and grandeur of Louisiana's antebellum past. Built by Marius Pons Bringier, the house stands as a prime example of Greek…

• Hermitage (Darrow, Louisiana) · 8.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Built as a wedding gift, this Greek Revival plantation home tells a story of love and legacy in Louisiana's plantation country. Marius Pons Bringier commissioned L'Hermitage in 1812 as a gift for his son, Michel…

• Evan Hall · 11.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Here, where the cane fields once stretched as far as the eye could see, stands Evan Hall, a stark reminder of Louisiana's complex past. By 1807, Evan Jones established this plantation to produce sugar. Later, Henry…

• St. Emma Plantation · 12.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Right here, at St. Emma Plantation, the echoes of the Civil War still linger. This wasn't a major battle, but a skirmish that reminds us even seemingly peaceful places were touched by the conflict. In the fall of 1862,…

• Carville Historic District · 12.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine being banished, not for a crime, but for a disease. That's the story of Carville. From 1894 until 1999, this site served as the National Leprosarium, later known as the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center.…

• Belle Alliance Plantation · 14.3 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine the lives intertwined here, where grand architecture met back-breaking labor on the banks of Bayou Lafourche. This is Belle Alliance Plantation, a name that echoes through the history of this Louisiana…

• St. John the Baptist Church (Dorseyville, Louisiana) · 15.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  This humble church represents a beacon of hope in the aftermath of slavery. St. John the Baptist Church was built around 1871 to serve the newly freed African-American community of Dorseyville. It provided a place for…

• Nottoway Plantation · 15.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine a palace rising from the Louisiana sugarcane fields—that was Nottoway Plantation. It was the largest antebellum mansion in the South. Built by John Hampden Randolph in 1859, this massive Greek Revival and…

• Nottoway Plantation · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker

  The largest surviving antebellum mansion in the South, a 53,000-square-foot Greek Revival and Italianate house on the Mississippi River completed in 1859.