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"Green Leaves", also known as the Koontz House or the Beltzhoover House, is a Greek Revival mansion in Natchez, Mississippi, completed in 1838 by Edward P. Fourniquet, a French lawyer who built other structures in the area. It was purchased by George Washington Koontz, a local banker in 1849 and has been owned by his descendants ever since.
In 1926, it was purchased by J. Balfour Miller and his wife, Katherine Grafton Miller, [2] who founded the Natchez Pilgrimage and promoted Natchez as the epitome of the Old South. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] After Katherine Miller's death in 1983, the home and all of its furnishings was purchased by Ethel Green Banta, a Natchez native and the daughter of a ...
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]
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 ...
Melrose was the estate of John T. McMurran, a lawyer, state senator, and planter who lived in Natchez from 1830 until the Civil War. Forks of the Road marks what was the second-busiest slave trading market in the Deep South between 1832 and 1863. [2] This unit of the park opened in an official ceremony on June 18, 2021. [3]
Stanton Hall occupies an entire 2-acre (0.81 ha) city block north of downtown Natchez, bounded by High, Commerce, Monroe, and Pearl Streets. The property is ringed by wrought iron fencing with elaborate gate posts. The house is a three-story brick structure, plastered and painted white.
A notice in Green's Impartial Observer [Natchez], February 21, 1801, indicates that James Moore, by that date, is living on the property. An 1805 city tax roll documents the house as having a tax valuation of $8,000, second in value only to Texada, which was built ca. 1798, documented as the city's first brick house, and valued at $12,000.
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.