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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 ...
The fort site is open to the public. The William Johnson House was the home of William Johnson, a 19th-century free African American barber and resident of Natchez whose diary has been published. Melrose was the estate of John T. McMurran, a lawyer, state senator, and planter who lived in Natchez from 1830 until the Civil War.
The main village of the Natchez people was located on St. Catherine's Creek. [3] The first plantation in the Natchez district was established in 1718, during the French colonial era, along St. Catherine's Creek. [4] The second capital of Mississippi Territory, Washington, could be reached by St. Catherine's Creek, in seasons of high water. [5]
Beginning in 1932 during the Great Depression, charging tourists for tours of the antebellum Natchez planters' homes, including Lansdowne, during the annual Pilgrimage tours brought in much needed money to keep the home livable. [20] A cotton plantation scene from the movie Show Boat (1951 film) was filmed on Lansdowne Plantation. [21]
Grand Village of the Natchez , 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 Plaquemine culture.
The original 500 acres (200 ha) acres grew to a 2,000 acres (810 ha) working cotton plantation through various ownerships, circa 1774–1812, and 1845–1850. [2] Glenfield was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi in 1990. [3]
Cherry Grove Plantation is today one of the best preserved and most complete plantation complexes in the Natchez area. The original plantation residence constructed by Pierre Surget and his wife Catharine burned in the mid-nineteenth century, and the present picturesque and architecturally significant residence was constructed about 1865 by ...
Dunleith is an antebellum mansion at 84 Homochitto Street in Natchez, Mississippi. [4] Built about 1855, it is Mississippi's only surviving example of a plantation house with a fully encircling colonnade of Greek Revival columns, a form once seen much more frequently than today.