Destrehan Plantation stands on the 1811 Slave Revolt Trail about midway between the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House and the ending points of the march near Kenner, Louisiana. It was the site of one of three tribunals that condemned 45 captured participants to death, and seventeen enslaved people from Destrehan Plantation took part in the revolt. On the night of January 8, 1811, up to 500 enslaved people began one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history at the plantation of Manuel Andry in LaPlace, Louisiana, then marched down River Road toward New Orleans, killing two plantation owners, burning several buildings, and drawing in others along the way. After an initial clash with militia near Kenner, the group was driven back toward present-day Norco, where a brutal encounter and later trials at Destrehan Plantation and elsewhere left about 100 participants dead; many were beheaded and their heads placed on the levee in front of plantations for nearly 60 miles as a warning. Though the uprising was technically unsuccessful, its impact echoed across the young United States as an early large-scale militant action against slavery before the Civil War and Emancipation. The property also includes 200-year-old live oak trees, folklife demonstrations, educational exhibits, signed documents from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, tours about life on a working plantation that include plantation owners and free and enslaved Africans, Native Americans, German farmers, and Acadians, and the Rost Home Colony exhibit honoring the 2000 freed slaves who received assistance there after the Civil War through a Freedmen's Bureau program.