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Natchez revolt. Fort Rosalie was destroyed in the 1729 massacre; its ruins now lie within Natchez National Historical Park. The Natchez revolt, or the Natchez massacre, was an attack by the Natchez Native American people on French colonists near present-day Natchez, Mississippi, on November 29, 1729. The Natchez and French had lived alongside ...
Deaths. 209. The Rhythm Club fire (or The Natchez Dance Hall Holocaust) was a fire in a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi on the night of April 23, 1940, which killed 209 people and severely injured many others. [1][2] Hundreds of people were trapped inside the building. At the time, it was the second deadliest building fire in the history of ...
Natchez, Mississippi, a city in southwestern Mississippi, United States. Grand Village of the Natchez, a site of Plaquemine culture in Adams County, Mississippi. Natchez Trace, a historic trail from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Natchez Trace Parkway, a United States National Parkway. Natchez-Under-the-Hill.
The Natchez are noted for having an unusual social system of noble classes and exogamous marriage. Members of the highest ranking class, called Suns, are thought to have been required to marry only members of the lowest commoner class, called Stinkards or commoners. The Natchez descent system has received a great deal of academic study.
Emerald Mound was constructed during 1250 and 1600 CE, and is the type site for the Emerald Phase (1500 - 1680) of the Plaquemine culture Natchez Bluffs chronology.It was used as a ceremonial center for a population who resided in outlying villages and hamlets, but takes its name from the historic Emerald Plantation that surrounded the mound in the 19th century.
Established by French colonists in 1716, Natchez is one of the oldest and most important Louisiana French settlements in the lower Mississippi River Valley. After the French lost the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), they ceded Natchez and near territory to Great Britain in the Treaty of Paris of 1763. (It later traded other territory ...
Architectural style. Greek Revival, Late Victorian. NRHP reference No. 79003381 [1] Added to NRHP. September 17, 1979. Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District is a historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]
Grand Village of the Natchez. Grand Village of the Natchez (22 AD 501), also known as the Fatherland Site, is a 128.1-acre (0.518 km 2) site encompassing a prehistoric indigenous village and earthwork mounds in present-day south Natchez, Mississippi. The village complex was constructed starting about 1200 CE by members of the prehistoric ...