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	Natchez, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At Natchez the Grand Village of the Natchez is preserved as a National Historic Landmark, and nearby Emerald Mound, an earlier ceremonial center, may be seen near the Natchez Trace Parkway [1].
		At Natchez, many local cotton plantation owners loaded their cotton onto steamboats at the landing known as "Natchez-Under-the-Hill" and transported downriver to New Orleans or sometimes upriver to Saint Louis, Missouri or Cincinnati, Ohio, where the cotton would be sold and transported to Northern spinning mills.
		Natchez is known for its many Antebellum mansions and estates, built by 19th century plantation owners who would often own farmland in Louisiana but locate their homes on the higher ground in Mississippi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natchez,_Mississippi (1169 words)

	Natchez Trace and the People
		The Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, a ceremonial mound center in Natchez, is overshadowed by the town’s antebellum district, yet this National Historic Landmark interprets the 500-year-old history and archeology of the Natchez tribe.
		The primary settlements of the Natchez (Nvce) are presently in the southern half of the Mvskoke reservation and the west central part of the Cherokee reservation in Oklahoma, especially near Braggs, Sourjohn Mountain, Natcheztown (Notchietown @ Gore), and Hulbert.
		Natchez families are also to be found among the balance of the Five Civilized Tribes including the Seminole and Chickasaw.
	www.snowwowl.com /peoplenatchez.html (1706 words)

	Natchez Indian Tribe History
		The Natchez were therefore not exterminated by the French, as has frequently been stated, but after suffering severe losses the remainder scattered far and wide among alien tribes.
		Though the accounts of the Natchez that have come down to us appear to be highly colored, it is evident that this tribe, and doubtless others on the lower Mississippi, occupied a somewhat anomalous position among the Indians.
		In the main the Natchez appear to have been peaceable, though like other tribes, they were involved in frequent quarrels with their neighbors.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/natchez/natchezhist.htm (887 words)

	Natchez Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Apart from accuracy, Natchez has a special relationship with its history, and I have a problem with Natchez and its history, which I'd like to address on a separate page.
		Natchez is right in the middle of this section of bluffs along the river.
		Natchez's position high on a bluff overlooking the river is downright dramatic.
	users.stlcc.edu /jangert/natchez/natchez.html (1286 words)

	The Natchez Indians
		Certainly Natchez Indians were counted among the thousands of warriors who chased the broken Spanish army down the Mississippi River as they sought their escape from North American under the command of Soto's successor, Luis Moscoso de Alvarado.
		The Natchez are famous in the anthropological literature on Southeastern Indians for their elaborate social and ceremonial system and for their use of platform mounds, both of which are key to their identity as the last example of the mound-building cultures that dominated the Mississippi Valley during late prehistoric times.
		French settlement alongside the Natchez began peacefully, but by the 1720s increasing demands upon their lands and resources led to hostilities, which culminated in a devastating war with the French during which the Natchez suffered tremendous losses.
	www.uark.edu /depts/contact/natchez.html (705 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Natchez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		About an hour north of Vicksburg, Natchez was also forced to land to repair a cold-water pump, which took another half hour, but thereafter she gained on her opponent.
		Although neither boat carried any cargo, and Natchez had about ninety passengers aboard, plus her crew, Leathers made few concessions to racing, and it is estimated that he lost a total of 7 hours in stops for passengers.
		Natchez remained in service until the end of the decade, and in 1874 she carried a record 5,511 bales of cotton to New Orleans.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_063200_natchez2.htm (375 words)

	Natchez on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Natchez was founded in 1716 when Fort Rosalie was established there; in 1729 members of the Natchez tribe killed the garrison troops.
		Natchez was capital of the Mississippi Territory from 1798 to 1802.
		Also there are the Natchez Museum of African-American History and Culture, the 1841 William Johnson House (owned by a freed slave who became a slave owner himself), the prehistoric Grand Village of the Natchez tribe, and Jefferson College, Mississippi's first chartered educational institution and now a museum.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Natchez.asp (782 words)

	Natchez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The city of Natchez lies on the southwestern border of Mississippi and is the oldest city on the Mississippi River.
		Natchez National Cemetery was established during this period, north of town near the river bluff.
		One of the old Natchez homes, “The Gardens,” served as a military hospital for federal troops, and some of the earliest interments are the men who died there.
	www.cem.va.gov /nchp/natchez.htm (707 words)

	Natchez Trace on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Natchez Trace, Old Agency projects taking longer than expected: Jackson bypass should be complete by end of 2004; Stack III project progressing smoothly.(Mississippi Business Journal)
		Natchez Trace Parkway Among Favorites in Southern Living Survey.
		The Buffalo Community Church in Kosciusko, Mississippi is where Oprah Winfrey first performed in public and stands along the Natchez Trace Parkway, a scenic journey through the South.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NatchezT1r.asp (769 words)

	Grand Village of the Natchez Indians -- National Register of Historic Places Indian Mounds of Mississippi Travel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Elaborate funeral ceremonies for the Natchez elite were conducted on the mound plaza.
		Fewer than 300 of the Natchez eventually were captured by the French and sold into slavery in the West Indies.
		The Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, designated a National Historic Landmark, is maintained as a park by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/mounds/gra.htm (620 words)

	Natchez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Natchez, Mississippi, a town in the United States
		Natchez Trace, a trail from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee
		Natchez Trace Parkway, a road that follows that trail
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natchez (102 words)

	Books on Natchez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From milepost to milepost, discover an ancient trail blazed hundreds of years ago by Native Americans that, in the early nineteenth century, became a trekking road for river boaters, who had sold their goods and vessels and were now headed back to central Tennessee and beyond.
		The Natchez Trace Parkway stretches 450 miles from the hills of Nashville, Tennessee to the rich farmlands of Natchez, Mississippi.
		Originally an Indian path, the Natchez Trace became the road that opened the forested wilderness of the Deep South to settlers, soldiers, boatmen and outlaws.
	b00ks.bankhacker.com /Natchez (967 words)

	AllRefer.com - Natchez Trace, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Natchez Trace, road, from Natchez, Miss., to Nashville, Tenn., of great commercial and military importance from the 1780s to the 1830s.
		At first traveled only N from Natchez to Nashville, because the American frontiersmen could float goods S to New Orleans by flatboat, it came to be used in both directions with U.S. expansion into the Old Southwest.
		The Natchez Trace Parkway and Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail memorialize and generally follow the old Natchez Trace.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NatchezTr.html (271 words)

	NATCHEZ - historical romantic fiction by Deb Crockett
		NATCHEZ is truly well written and held my attention right up to the very end with its unexpected and exciting twists and turns.
		It is easy to picture the fateful steamboat trip from Savannah to Natchez, Mississippi, as Rebecca Bennett travels with her father to purchase a cotton plantation and begin a new life.
		NATCHEZ could just as easily have been entitled REBECCA because it is her story, and no one else's.
	www.angelfire.com /tn/shadylady/romance.html (2164 words)

	The Natchez Trace
		The Natchez Trace is one of the oldest highways in the southeastern United States.
		From New Orleans to Natchez the Trace ran through fairly well settled areas with relatively little danger; from Natchez to Nashville its path was through sparsely settled, more dangerous areas.
		An account of a journey on the Natchez Trace where Reverend Taltatters acquires a pig, a chair, a dog, and a parrot during his journeys.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~spcol/msana/msanapath_miss_trace.htm (585 words)

	LSU Libraries -- Guide to Natchez-Area Manuscripts
		All were part of the original Natchez District of the Spanish period, and together they form the southwestern corner of the state, bordering Louisiana on two sides of a triangular geographical area.
		Natchez, Mississippi, resident and Confederate private in the Jefferson Davis Legion, Mississippi Cavalry, in the Civil War.
		Planter of the Concord Plantation and governor of the Spanish district of Natchez.
	www.lib.lsu.edu /special/guides/natchez.html (10213 words)

	MDAH \| Grand Village of the Natchez Indians
		Relations between the French and the Natchez were cordial at first, but deteriorated as various disagreements and episodes of violence arose in 1716 and again in 1723.
		In 1729, a pro-English element within the tribe led the Natchez to attack the French colonial platations and military garrison at Fort Rosalie.
		The French retaliated in such force that the Natchez were forced to abandon their homeland.
	www.mdah.state.ms.us /hprop/gvni.html (211 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Natchez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Natchez was designed for trade between New Orleans and New York and as such was built with a flat floor to enable her to cross the shallow bar at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
		Far from reducing her sailing qualities, as such a hull form was expected to do, Natchez and her sisters proved fast ships.
		Originally owned by a consortium of New York and New Orleans merchants, she was later purchased by Howland and Aspinwall, who put her under command of Captain Robert H. Waterman, a hard-driving veteran of the transatlantic packet trade.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_063100_natchez1.htm (369 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Natchez
		Capuchin, Jesuit, and secular priests laboured in this field, having missions at Biloxi, Natchez, and Yazoo.
		James Oliver Van de Velde was transferred from Chicago to Natchez, 29 July, 1853.
		He was consecrated Bishop of Natchez, 1 May, 1881., and promoted to be Archbishop of New Orleans, 7 August, 1888.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10709b.htm (575 words)

	Natchez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Natchez were among some of the last native American groups to live in the area which is now known as southwestern Mississippi.
		The Natchez language seems to be related to the Muskogean language family.
		It was believed by the Natchez that in the distant past the son of the deity came to earth and brought civilization as his own people giving them laws, customs, ceremonies, and arts which made them powerful.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/natchezindians.html (506 words)

	Natchez, Miss.: Grand homes of cotton kings among charms \| ajc.com
		Natchez is a romantic and tragic old town, and it takes a good deal of walking to discover its charms.
		One such Natchez house on the market is an 8,000-square-foot, two-story Greek Revival home built in 1840.
		Beyond the elegant houses, besides the cotton fields and tasty gumbos, one of the nicest things to do in Natchez is go for strolls that carry you back in history.
	ajc.com /travel/content/travel/southeast/ms_stories/0305/02getaway.html (1057 words)

	Excerpt from NATCHEZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She knew her father was anxious to get to Natchez, anxious to buy the farm and start the new life that they had come so far to find.
		The trip from New Orleans to Natchez would be much, much shorter than the voyage from Savannah, so she unpacked only a few things from her trunk.
		Now that the trip was finally nearing its end, she was as anxious as her father to find out more about Natchez and the cotton farm and the new life he had promised her.
	scheherazadetales.com /enovels/natchez/natchezexcerpt.html (6157 words)

	The Natchez Indians
		In his opinion the Natchez lived comfortably in well-built houses around which peach trees were often planted for fruit and shade.
		During eight years at Natchez he became friends with the Natchez, who he said "make good use of their reason, who think justly, who are prudent, faithful, generous, much more than certain civilized nations." Much of his basic knowledge about Indians came from a Chitimacha slave girl whom he had acquired.
		Among the Natchez, members of each class were required to marry someone in a class lower than their own -- except that the miche-miche-quipy could either marry up the scale, or among themselves.
	www.backyardnature.net /loess/ind_natz.htm (1088 words)

	Viki's Little Corner of the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Natchez Indians from whom the town of Natchez takes it's name, if tradition may be believed, came from Mexico where they had lived for centruries; and after the fall of the Montezuma Empire, to which they were allied, they fled from Spanish tryanny.
		The Natchez Trace did not cross Tombigbee River at Cotton Gin Port, but both Gain's Trace and Natchez Trace leaving Colbert's Ferry was for quite a distance one and the same.
		Just then there turned up a very handsome young man, Simon Burney from the Natchez country who lover her very deeply, and her father and herself both feared interference by Mitchell and his friends and she and Burney married at once and left the Nation and went to his home near Natchez.
	www.roark-family.org /History/NatchezTrace.asp (3933 words)

	Natchez -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Established in 1716 as Fort Rosalie by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, it survived a massacre (1729) by Natchez Indians for whom it was later named.
		The heaviest volume of traffic is along the Gulf Coast, where it merges into the flow from the numerous upstate north–south and east–west patterns.
		He later moved to Nevada, and as an advocate of free silver, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1893 to 1903 and in the Senate from 1903 to 1917.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054932?tocId=9054932 (658 words)

	Native American in Natchez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Natchez Indians were among the last Indian groups to inhabit the area now known as southwestern Mississippi.
		The Natchez Trace began centuries ago as a footpath, used by the Indians for movements between the southern and central areas of the North American continent.
		The historic significance of the Natchez Trace led to the creation of the Natchez Trace Parkway, which cuts diagonally across Mississippi, crosses the Tennessee River near Muscle Shoals in Alabama and then runs directly to Nashville, for a total of about 450 miles.
	www.familytravelguides.com /articles/southeaststates/Mississippi/natzna.html (618 words)

	Natchez, Mississippi - The Official Natchez Tourism & City Government Web Site :: www.visitnatchez.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Life in Natchez is simple and easy-going punctuated by year round festivals and celebrations.
		In Natchez we know life is to be celebrated and our blessings shared.
		Natchez boasts some of the finest cuisine found anywhere in the world.
	www.natchez.ms.us (251 words)

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