• Mississippi River from the Bluffs of Natchez

    Natchez

    National Historical Park Mississippi

Stories

Emerald Mound: courtesy Minnesota State University

The Natchez Indians

Click on the picture at the left to learn more about the Native Americans that once inhabited the Natchez region.

 
1770 rendition of plans for Fort Rosalie: courtesy Library of Congress

The Region's Early Settlers

Click on the picture at the left to learn more about the early European settlers in the Natchez area.

Did You Know?

William Johnson's Diary

Free Black barber and diarist William Johnson owned sixteen slaves at the time of his death in 1851.