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  2. Magnolia Hall (Natchez, Mississippi) - Wikipedia

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    Magnolia Hall was built by Thomas Henderson, a wealthy merchant, planter and cotton broker. The home is one of the finest examples in Natchez of the Greek Revival style. [2] During a bombardment of Natchez by the Union gunboat Essex, a shell hit the soup tureen in Magnolia Hall's kitchen. [3] The Natchez Garden Club has restored Magnolia Hall.

  3. File:Eugène Delacroix - Les Natchez, 1835 (Metropolitan ...

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    Depicts Natchez Native American mother and father with their newborn child on the banks of the Mississippi River. Inspired by 1801 novel "Atala" by Chateaubriand, the setting is in French Colonial Louisiana; the Natchez couple have recently escaped upriver from a massacre.

  4. The Natchez - Wikipedia

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    The Natchez is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1834–35 by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix. It depicts a Native American couple with their newborn child. The painting was inspired by a passage in Chateaubriand's Atala, which describes the family as the last members of the Natchez tribe

  5. Hope Farm (Natchez, Mississippi) - Wikipedia

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    The house was built by Carlos de Grand Pré from 1780 to 1792. [2] Simple Spanish provincial architecture. Mary Routh Ellis sold the farm to Eli Montgomery in 1833, and for 90 years it remained in Montgomery family. Spain and England met here. Hope Farm, charming in its simplicity, had a section built in 1775, when the English owned the Natchez ...

  6. Natchez people - Wikipedia

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    Natchez Great Temple on Mound C and the Sun Chiefs cabin, drawn by Alexandre de Batz in the 1730s "The Great Sun, Paramount Chief of the Natchez People" in a 1758 drawing by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz The funeral procession of Tattooed Serpent in 1725, with retainers waiting to be sacrificed from a drawing by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz ...

  7. History of Natchez, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Great Temple on Mound C and the Sun Chiefs cabin, drawn by Alexandre de Batz in the 1730s. According to archaeological excavations, the area has been continuously inhabited by various cultures of indigenous peoples since the 8th century A.D. [1] The original site of Natchez was developed as a major village with ceremonial platform mounds, built by people of the prehistoric Plaquemine culture ...

  8. D'Evereux - Wikipedia

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    D'Evereux Hall is a mansion in Natchez, Mississippi, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] D’Evereux was built for William St. John Elliot, a wealthy plantation owner, and his wife Anna Conner. The couple were social leaders in Natchez, and the home was named for Elliot's mother's family. [2]

  9. Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District - Wikipedia

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    It includes National Historic Landmark-designated sites: [2]. House on Ellicott's Hill; Stanton Hall; Rosalie; Commercial Bank and Banker's House (c. 1837), consisting of the Commercial Bank Building, a "one-story three-bay stuccoed brick with stone facade commercial building of two-story height with Ionic portico," and the connected Greek Revival style.