Attractions
Historic Houses
The most intact antebellum estate in the United States is the
magnificent Melrose, owned and operated by the National Park
Service in its grounds in the Natchez National Historical Park.
Melrose was built in 1849 and still features its original
hand-painted canvas flooring. The...
see full detailsGrand Village of the Natchez Indians
The Grand Village was the main ceremonial centre of the Natchez
Indians, who inhabited southwest Mississippi between AD700 and
1730. Their culture reached a peak in the mid-1500s, when French
explorers found the Grand Village and began to settle in the area.
Eventually the...
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Natchez features a collection of architecturally valuable
historic churches of various denominations, all located in the
central city area. Among them is St Mary's in South Union Street,
the oldest Catholic building in Mississippi, built in Gothic
Revival style back in 1840. The Trinity...
see full detailsNatchez Under-the-Hill
The city's original waterfront area, Natchez-Under-the-Hill,
reached by descending the bluff via Silver Street, was once the
notorious haunt of pirates, riverboat gamblers and outlaws, known
as the 'Barbary Coast of the Mississippi'. As the use of riverboats
dwindled, so did its bad reputation...
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