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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.
United States historic place Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Silver Street, Natchez-Under-the-Hill c. 1860 (Mississippi Department of Archives and History) Location Bounded by S. Canal St., Broadway, and the Mississippi River, Natchez, Mississippi Coordinates 31°33′32″N 91°25′36″W / 31.55889 ...
A portion of the historic Natchez City Cemetery in Adams County. Adams County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,538. [1] The county seat is Natchez. [2] The county is the first to have been organized in the former Mississippi Territory.
The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs: Natchez to New Orleans, 1870–1920. New York: Dover Publications, 1987. Gower, Herschel. Charles Dahlgren of Natchez: The Civil War and Dynastic Decline Brassey's, 2002. 293 pp. Inglis, G. Douglas. "Searching for Free People of Color in Colonial Natchez," Southern Quarterly 2006 43(2): 97 ...
Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is a historic antebellum octagonal mansion located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, United States.Built in part by enslaved people, [4] [5] the mansion is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark.
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.
Stanton Hall, also known as Belfast, is a Greek Revival mansion within the Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District at 401 High Street in Natchez, Mississippi.Built in the 1850s, it is one of the most opulent antebellum mansions to survive in the southeastern United States.
Rosalie Mansion is a historic pre-Civil War mansion and historic house museum in Natchez, Mississippi.Built in 1823, it was a major influence on Antebellum architecture in the greater region, inspiring many of Natchez's grand Greek Revival mansions.