Laura Plantation, Historic plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States

Laura Plantation, formerly Habitation Duparc, is a Creole raised house on the west bank of the Mississippi in Vacherie, St. James Parish. The 1804–1805 big house has a raised brick basement, a briquette-entre-poteaux upper floor and a wide gallery with two staircases; its centre bay carries a triangular gable with a red-and-white fan motif. Four original slave cabins and a maison de reprise survive.

Guillaume Duparc, a French naval veteran of the American Revolutionary War, received land along the Mississippi from Thomas Jefferson in 1804, and his enslaved workers built the raised Creole house in 1804–1805. Four generations of women led the sugar operation: Nanette Prud'homme, then Élisabeth Duparc, then Désirée Archinard, then Laura Locoul Gore, who sold it in 1891 to Aubert Florian Waguespack. The Waguespack family kept the plantation until 1984.

The name comes from Laura Locoul Gore, who inherited management and whose writings record several generations of family life. Tours work with these personal accounts to explain how Creole families organized their sugar operations and how enslaved people lived under those conditions.

Visitors explore the grounds through guided tours that cover the restored main house, quarters where enslaved people lived, and the gardens. Tours typically last about an hour and a half and run daily, with comfortable shoes recommended as part of the tour takes place outdoors.

Alcée Fortier, later a Romance languages professor at Tulane, was said to have collected Louisiana Creole versions of the West African Br'er Rabbit stories here in the 1870s. The tales were told to him by people who had been enslaved on the plantation.