Natchez, Mississippi

County seat and only city of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.

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Natchez people

Platform mounds (in the distance) and reconstructed wattle-and-daub house at the Grand Village of the Natchez.

A modern reconstruction of a traditional Natchez dwelling at the Grand Village of the Natchez in Adams County, Mississippi

Mississippian culture pottery from the Grand Village of the Natchez historic site

Natchez Great Temple on Mound C and the Sun Chiefs cabin, drawn by Alexandre de Batz in the 1730s

"The Great Sun, Paramount Chief of the Natchez People" in a 1758 drawing by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz

The funeral procession of Tattooed Serpent in 1725, with retainers waiting to be sacrificed from a drawing by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz

The Natchez Revolt of 1729, where the Natchez slaughtered most of the French soldiers and colonists, with Fort Rosalie in the background, from a panoramic painting by John Egan, circa 1850

1835 oil painting by Eugène Delacroix of a Natchez mother and father with their newborn child on the banks of the Mississippi River, inspired by Chateaubriand's fictionalized account of the Natchez Wars in Louisiana

"Carte de Lousiane" from Dumont de Montigny (1753), Mémoires Historiques sur la Louisiane. Annotated to show paths of d'Artaguette and Bienville in Chickasaw Campaign of 1736

The Natchez ( Natchez pronunciation ) are a Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area in the Lower Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi in the United States.

Vidalia, Louisiana

Largest city and the parish seat of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Natchez-Vidalia Bridge over Mississippi River

The city of Natchez, Mississippi, lies on the opposite bank of the river, connected by the Natchez–Vidalia Bridge, carrying U.S. Routes 65, 84, and 425.

Natchez Trace

One of numerous overpasses on the Natchez Trace toward the exit to Vicksburg

A cypress swamp along the side of the Natchez Trace near Jackson, Mississippi

Another view of the Sunken Trace (June 2015)

The spring located at Buzzard Roost Spring at Milepost 320.3 near Cherokee, Alabama.

Meriwether Lewis National Monument and Grave, April 2014

The Natchez Trace, also known as the Old Natchez Trace, is a historic forest trail within the United States which extends roughly 440 mi from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi rivers.

Natchez Trace Parkway

National parkway in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Natchez Trace and preserves sections of that original trail.

Old Natchez Trace sign southwest of Mathiston, Mississippi

Entrance sign to the parkway near Natchez, Mississippi

The Natchez Trace Parkway seen from Twentymile Bottom Overlook, milepost 278.4, about 20 miles northeast of Tupelo, MS.

Captain John Gordon's house on the site where the Natchez Trace crosses the Duck River. Originally a ferry operated by Gordon and Chickasaw Chief William Colbert was located here. Gordon and his wife built this Federal style plantation home which is one of the oldest structures along the trace.

Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge over SR 96 in Tennessee

Meriwether Lewis National Monument and gravesite

Its central feature is a two-lane road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee.

Jackson, Mississippi

Capital and most populous city of the U.S. State of Mississippi.

The entire Choctaw Nation's location and size compared to the U.S. state of Mississippi

Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States and the city's namesake

"Raising the Stars and Stripes Over the Capitol of the State of Mississippi", engraving from Harper's Weekly, June 20, 1863, after the capture of Jackson by Union forces during the American Civil War

September 1863 map of the Siege of Jackson

Mississippi Old Capitol, downtown Jackson

April 16, 1921 flood on Town Creek, a tributary of the Pearl River in Jackson. The photo is a view of East Capitol Street looking east from North Farish Street.

Standard Life Building, downtown Jackson

Photograph of Jackson Mississippi taken from the International Space Station

Map of racial distribution in Jackson, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

1874 engraving in Scribner's Monthly of the Old Capitol, the seat of Mississippi's legislature from 1839 to 1903.

Jackson State University band "The Sonic Boom"

Millsaps College is one of several institutions in and around Jackson established before 1900.

Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson, Mississippi

Veterans Memorial Stadium is the largest stadium facility in Jackson. Its parking lot often is used by employees of the University of Mississippi Medical Center nearby.

The Mississippi General Assembly decided in 1821 that the state needed a centrally located capital (the legislature was then located in Natchez).

Mississippi

State in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas.

Choctaw Village near the Chefuncte, by Francois Bernard, 1869, Peabody Museum—Harvard University. The women are preparing dye in order to color cane strips for making baskets.

The Big House at D'Evereux Plantation. Built in 1840, the mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Confederate lines, Vicksburg, May 19, 1863. Shows assault by US 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry

The legislature of the State of Mississippi in 1890

Child workers, Pass Christian, 1911, by Lewis Hine

Mexican American boy and African American man at the Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi, in 1939, by Marion Post Wolcott

Dancing at a juke joint near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1939, by Marion Post Wolcott

The previous flag of Mississippi, used until June 30, 2020, featured the Confederate battle flag

Map of the Mississippi Delta Region (outlined in green)

Map with all counties and their county seats

Köppen climate types of Mississippi, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Hurricanes Camille (left) and Katrina from satellite imagery, as they approached the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Clark Creek Natural Area, Wilkinson County

A racial/ethnic map of the state of Mississippi. The purple counties have black majorities, the blue ones have white majorities. The darker the color, the larger the majority.

Sharecropper's daughter, Lauderdale County, 1935

2014 Corolla built by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi on display at the Tupelo Automobile Museum

Five Governors of Mississippi in 1976, from left: Ross Barnett, James P. Coleman, William L. Waller, John Bell Williams, and Paul B. Johnson Jr.

Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election

The Vicksburg Bridge carries I-20 and U.S. 80 across the Mississippi River at Vicksburg.

The Mississippi State Capitol was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2016.

In 1716, the French founded Natchez on the Mississippi River (as Fort Rosalie); it became the dominant town and trading post of the area.

New Orleans

Consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

The New Orleans cityscape in early February 2007

The Revolt took place in what is now Natchez National Historical Park in Natchez, Mississippi.

1724 plan for Saint Louis Parish Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, by Adrien de Pauger

Plan of the city and suburbs of New Orleans: from a survey made in 1815

Mississippi River steamboats at New Orleans, 1853

The starving people of New Orleans under Union occupation during the Civil War, 1862

Esplanade Avenue at Burgundy Street, looking lakewards (north) towards Lake Pontchartrain in 1900

1943 waiting line at wartime Rationing Board office in New Orleans

Richard Nixon in New Orleans, August 1970. Royal at Iberville Streets, heading to Canal Street.

A view of the New Orleans Central Business District, as seen from the Mississippi River. USS New Orleans (LPD-18) in foreground (2007).

Hurricane Katrina at its New Orleans landfall

An aerial view from a United States Navy helicopter showing floodwaters around the Louisiana Superdome (stadium) and surrounding area (2005)

A true-color satellite image taken on NASA's Landsat 7, 2004

Vertical cross-section, showing maximum levee height of 23 ft

Bourbon Street, New Orleans, in 2003, looking towards Canal Street

New Orleans contains many distinctive neighborhoods.

Skyline of the Central Business District of New Orleans

Snow falls on St. Charles Avenue in December 2008.

Hurricanes of Category 3 or greater passing within 100 miles, from 1852 to 2005 (NOAA)

Map of racial distribution in New Orleans, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:

Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis, King of France

Beth Israel synagogue building on Carondelet Street

A tanker on the Mississippi River in New Orleans

The steamboat Natchez operates out of New Orleans.

Aerial view of NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility

Street artist in the French Quarter (1988)

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) located in City Park

New Orleans Mardi Gras in the early 1890s

Mounted krewe officers in the Thoth Parade during Mardi Gras

Louis Armstrong, famous New Orleans jazz musician

Frank Ocean is a musician from New Orleans.

Steamship Bienville on-board restaurant menu (April 7, 1861)

Café du Monde, a landmark New Orleans beignet cafe established in 1862

The fleur-de-lis is often a symbol of New Orleans and its sports teams.

A view of Gibson Hall at Tulane University

A New Orleans streetcar traveling down Canal Street

Ferries connecting New Orleans with Algiers (left) and Gretna (right)

Notably, the Natchez, whose traditional lands were along the Mississippi near the modern city of Natchez, Mississippi, had a series of wars culminating in the Natchez Revolt that began in 1729 with the Natchez overrunning Fort Rosalie.

Antebellum architecture

Neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War.