There is a tour of the Big House at Oak Alley Plantation that is extremely informative. All of the tour guides dress up in costumes from the time that the plantation was in operation. The original owners were Jacques and Celina Roman, and they obtained the property and built the house in 1836 with the intention to profit off of the sugarcane crop. They used slaves for labor and relied on the Mississippi River for transporting the crops and cane sugar to market.