Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez, Mississippi City of Natchez The historic Melrose estate at Natchez National Historical Park is an example of Antebellum Era Greek Revival architecture.
The historic Melrose estate at Natchez National Historical Park is an example of Antebellum Era Greek Revival architecture.
Nickname(s): The Bluff City, The Trace City, The River City, Antebellum Capital of the World, Historic Natchez on the Mississippi Location of Natchez in Adams County Location of Natchez in Adams County Natchez, Mississippi is positioned in Mississippi Natchez, Mississippi - Natchez, Mississippi 1790 as the capital of the Natchez District Natchez is the governmental center of county and only town/city of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.
Natchez has a total populace of 15,792 (as of the 2010 census). Located on the Mississippi River athwart from Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent town/city in the antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade.
It is some 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, which is positioned near the center of the state.
It is about 85 miles (137 km) north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, positioned on the lower Mississippi River.
Natchez is the 25th-largest town/city in the state. The town/city was titled for the Natchez tribe of Native Americans, who with their ancestors, inhabited much of the region from the 8th century AD through the French colonial period.
Established by French colonists in 1716, Natchez is one of the earliest and most meaningful European 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 Spain in the Treaty of Paris of 1763.
After the United States acquired this region from the British after the American Revolutionary War, the town/city served as the capital of the American Mississippi Territory and then of the state of Mississippi.
It predates Jackson by more than a century; the latter replaced Natchez as the capital in 1822, as it was more centrally positioned in the developing state.
The strategic locale of Natchez, on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, ensured that it would be a pivotal center of trade, commerce, and the interchange of ethnic Native American, European, and African cultures in the region; it held this position for two centuries after its founding.
History, Natchez is recognized especially for its part in the evolution of the Old Southwest amid the first half of the nineteenth century.
It was the southern end of the historic Natchez Trace, with the northern end being Nashville, Tennessee.
After unloading their cargoes in Natchez or New Orleans, many pilots and crew of flatboats and keelboats traveled by the Trace overland to their homes in the Ohio River Valley .
(Given the strong current of the Mississippi River, it was not until steamships were advanced in the 1820s that travel northward on the river could be accomplished by large boats.) The Natchez Trace also played an meaningful part amid the War of 1812.
Today the undivided Natchez Trace Parkway, which memorializes this route, still has its southern end in Natchez.
Natchez became the principal port from which these crops were exported, both upriver to Northern metros/cities and downriver to New Orleans, where much of the cargo was exported to Europe.
During the twentieth century, the city's economy experienced a downturn, first due to the replacement of steamboat traffic on the Mississippi River by barns s in the early 1900s, some of which bypassed the river metros/cities and drew away their commerce.
Even with its status as a prominent destination for tradition tourism because of well-preserved antebellum architecture, Natchez has had a general diminish in populace since 1960.
It remains the principal town/city of the Natchez, MS LA Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Main article: History of Natchez, Mississippi Natchez is positioned at 31 33'16" latitude, 91 23'15" longitude (31.554393, 91.387566). Climate data for Natchez, Mississippi Natchez is home to Alcorn State University's Natchez Campus, which offers the School of Nursing, the School of Business, and graduate company programs.
The School of Business offers Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and other company classes from its Natchez campus.
The MBA program attracts students from a wide range of academic disciplines and preparation from the Southwest Mississippi region and beyond. Both schools in the Natchez ground provide skills which has enabled improve students to have an meaningful impact on the economic opportunities of citizens in Southwest Mississippi. The Natchez Campus is a undivided facility with a several technology-driven amenities, such as campus-wide Wi - Fi and electronic whiteboards for e-delivery of lectures.
The School of Business from its Natchez Campus also offers other closing education courses and workshops for the benefit of the county-wide improve and businesses.
The Natchez Campus also operates a satellite ground library.
Copiah-Lincoln Community College also operates a ground in Natchez.
The town/city of Natchez and Adams County operate one enhance school system, the Natchez-Adams School District.
Frazier, Robert Lewis Middle School, Central Alternative School, Natchez High School, and Fallin Career and Technology Center.
In Natchez, there are a number of private and parochial schools.
Trinity Episcopal Day School and Adams County Christian School are both members of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS).
61 runs north-south, alongside to the Mississippi River, linking Natchez with Port Gibson, Woodville, Mississippi and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
84 runs east-west and bridges the Mississippi, connecting it with Vidalia, Louisiana and Brookhaven, Mississippi.
65 runs north from Natchez along the west bank of the Mississippi.
98 runs east from Natchez towards Bude and Mc - Comb, Mississippi.
Mississippi 555 runs north from the center of Natchez to where it joins Mississippi Highway 554.
Natchez is served by the Natchez-Adams County Airport, a general aviation facility.
List of media in the Natchez micropolitan region or (Miss-Lou) Campbell Brown, Emmy Award-winning journalist, political anchor for CNN; interval up in Natchez and attended both Trinity Episcopal and Cathedral High School George Henry Clinton, member of both homes of the Louisiana State Legislature in the first quarter of the 20th century, born in Natchez in the late 1860s Cordill, Louisiana state senator from Concordia and Tensas churches, interred at Natchez City Cemetery Joseph, Louisiana, from 1901 to 1930; reared partly in Natchez; worked to establish Mississippi River bridge at Natchez Varina Howell Davis, first lady of the Confederate States of America; born, reared, and married in Natchez Gee, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980 to 1992 from suburban New Orleans; born in Natchez in 1940, died in Baton Rouge in 2014 Mickey Gilley, nation music singer, born in Natchez Cedric Griffin, Minnesota Vikings cornerback born in Natchez but raised in San Antonio, Texas Troyce Guice, Natchez restaurant owner, twice a candidate for the United State Senate from Louisiana Greg Iles, raised in Natchez and a best-selling author of many novels set in the town/city Samuel Abraham Marx, architect, was born in Natchez A Natchez town/city street, Lynda Lee Drive, is titled in her honor.
Myrtis Methvin, second woman mayor of a Louisiana town; served in Castor in Bienville Parish from 1933 to 1945; born in Attala County, Mississippi, reared in Natchez Anne Moody, civil rights activist and author of Coming of Age in Mississippi, attended Natchez Junior College Ratcliff, member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1944 to 1948, lived in Natchez Pierre Adolphe Rost, a member of the Mississippi State Senate and commissioner to Europe for the Confederate States, immigrated to Natchez from France Billy Shaw, Pro Football Hall of Fame member, born in Natchez Chris Shivers, two-time PBR world champion bull rider, born in Natchez Don Jose Vidal, Spanish governor of the Natchez District, buried in the Natchez City Cemetery Richard Wright, novelist, author of Black Boy and Native Son, born on Rucker plantation in Roxie, twenty-two miles east of Natchez; lived in Natchez as a child Arlington (Natchez, Mississippi) Auburn (Natchez, Mississippi) Homewood Plantation (Natchez, Mississippi) Lansdowne (Natchez, Mississippi) Longwood (Natchez, Mississippi) Melrose (Natchez, Mississippi) Monmouth (Natchez, Mississippi) Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture Natchez District Natchez National Cemetery Natchez National Historical Park Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District Richmond (Natchez, Mississippi) United States Courthouse (Natchez, Mississippi) "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Natchez city, Mississippi".
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"The Barber of Natchez - Natchez National Historical Park (U.S.
Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914.
City under Siege: Resistance and Power in Natchez, Mississippi, 1719 1857, Ph - D.
An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York, Louisiana State U.
"Occupied Natchez, Elite Women, and the Feminization of the Civil War," Journal of Mississippi History, 2008 70(2): 179 207, Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs: Natchez to New Orleans, 1870 1920.
Charles Dahlgren of Natchez: The Civil War and Dynastic Decline Brassey's, 2002.
Mary's of Natchez: The History of a Southern Catholic Congregation, 1716 1988 (2 vol 1992) The Reshaping of plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860 1880 (1983).
"'We Will Shoot Back': The Natchez Model and Paramilitary Organization in the Mississippi Freedom Movement", Journal of Black Studies, Vol.
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