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  2. History of Natchez, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    The 128-acre (0.52 km 2) site of the Grand Village of the Natchez is preserved as a National Historic Landmark; it is maintained by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The site includes a museum with artifacts from the mounds and village.

  3. Natchez, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Natchez (/ ˈ n æ tʃ ɪ z / NATCH-iz) is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.The population was 14,520 at the 2020 census. [3] Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent city in the antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade.

  4. Natchez people - Wikipedia

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    Distribution of the Natchez people and their chiefdoms in 1682. The Natchez (/ ˈ n æ tʃ ɪ z / NATCH-iz, [1] [2] Natchez: [naːʃt͡seh] [3]) are a Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area in the Lower Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi, in the United States.

  5. Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District - Wikipedia

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    "Natchez is situated on the east side of the Mississippi - a small part of the town immediately on the bank and under the hill - the houses here are small - being little else but hucksters' shops - The main body of the town lies an half mile from the river after rising an elevated bluff of 100 or 150 feet by a serpentine road winding obliquely up the hill.

  6. Natchez District - Wikipedia

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    The most noted cotton varieties (Belle Creole, Jethro, Parker, and Petit Gulf) were bred in Mississippi. In 1803 the United States had made the Louisiana Purchase, acquiring vast territories west of the Mississippi River. The lowlying delta area west of the river across from Natchez also became informally considered part of the Natchez District.

  7. The Devil’s Punchbowl: Debunking the social media myth of a ...

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    Several years after the news report aired, Jim Wiggins, a history professor at Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Natchez, described the WJTV segment as “a disgrace.” The story of what ...

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

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    Andrew Marschalk's printing office where the first book printed in Mississippi was printed in 1799, the first bank in Mississippi, the site of American flag-raising, in 1798, by Andrew Ellicott near the House on Ellicott's Hill, and; the traditional location of the earliest Sunday school south of Philadelphia, conducted at a Methodist church.

  9. Devil's Punchbowl (Natchez, Mississippi) - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] However, the scale of the tragedy has been disputed by multiple historians, with history professor Jim Wiggins arguing the 20,000 estimate is baseless and inflated tenfold, [4] and author and activist Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-Clifford M. Boxley referring to the story as "concocted Confederate propaganda" aiming to cast the Union Army in a ...