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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 (1215 words)

	Encyclopedia: Natchez-District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Natchez District is a historic district, located in the lower Mississippi Valley, in the southwestern part of the state of Mississippi.
		The Natchez district presently consists of 81 properties and runs the entire length of Natchez Street, as well as several streets perpendicular to it.
		The Natchez District was the first plantation area in Mississippi and also the richest area in the Deep South before the Civil War.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Natchez_District (3276 words)

	Natchez District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The neighborhood is bounded by Columbia Avenue on the east, Ninth Avenue on the north, West Main Street, 11th Avenue South and Park Street on the west and Granbury Street on the south.
		Yet, it wasn't until around 1800, when the Whitney’s cotton gin was perfected that planters in the Natchez District became very wealthy.
		After the district was developed in the early 1900s, the neighborhood remained vibrant, if somewhat shabby, into the 1950s and 1960s, even as the Federal Housing Authority established public housing projects there to bring residents out of unsafe living conditions.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natchez_District (668 words)

	THE NATCHEZ SLAVE PRESS AND THE ROAD TO DISUNION
		Although many Natchez newspapers for the period from 1800 to 1865 are available on microfilm, the records are capricious and incomplete, especially for the earlier part of the period.
		Natchez, especially in the earliest years of the territorial period, did not have enough newspaper readers committed to supplying their own cash to support a local journal.
		Natchez evolved from a muddy frontier village to a major, though small, economic and cultural center between 1800 and 1860, so examining the purposes of the newspapers and the manner by which a newspaper operated must be supplemented with the many changes that transformed the city...
	natchezpress.blogspot.com (10376 words)

	Union - U.S. Colored Troops Infantry (Part 3)
		District of LaFourche, Dept. of the Gulf, to November, 1865.
		Northern District of Louisiana, Dept. of the Gulf, to December, 1865.
		District of Southern Alabama, Dept. of the Gulf, to March, 1865.
	www.civilwararchive.com /Unreghst/uncolinf3.htm (5070 words)

	Manuel Gayoso and Spanish Natchez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Born in Oporto, Portugal, the son of a Spanish consul and a Portuguese mother, Gayoso was well-educated, fluent in several languages including English, and skilled in diplomacy and military tactics.
		When the decision was made in the halls of power to upgrade the Natchez District from one ruled by a military commandant to one under a governor, Gayoso was selected.
		Gayoso knew that continued growth of the Natchez District needed the institutions and infrastructure of civilization.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature12/spanish_natchez.html (1341 words)

	Natchez Trace Parkway--Lewis and Clark Expedition: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The capital of the southern territory was Natchez and it was removed from the nearest outpost, Nashville, by 600 miles of American Indian territory.
		Winthrop Sargent, a veteran of the Revolutionary War and the first governor of the Natchez District, attempted to solve the problem of insufficient communications between settlements by encouraging the use of the Trace for travel to Natchez.
		The Natchez Trace ceased to be the main highway leading to the riverport cities of Natchez and New Orleans after the introduction of the steamboat in 1820, when river travel replaced the use of the Old Natchez Trace.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/lewisandclark/nat.htm (788 words)

	MTC - Natchex Trace News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Natchez Trace district is pleased to announce a new Chapter Adviser for its Order of the Arrow chapter.
		The district would like to welcome Larry to his new position and thank Boyd for his exemplary service.
		Natchez Trace District Day Camps are being held June 6-10, 2005 at BGA Campus in Franklin and Holy Family in Brentwood.
	www.mtcbsa.org /html/natcheztracenews.htm (194 words)

	Natchez Trace Parkway 03/07/01-Mississippi(MS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Here is the Natchez Trace, a bond that held the Southwest to the rest of the nation, a channel for the flow of people and ideas, a memorial to the thousands whose footsteps stamped into the American land.
		Natchez in the extreme South-western corner of the United States was threatened by Spain in 1800 and later by France and Great Britain.
		Ferguson, a Virginian, migrated to Natchez in 1774.
	travel.nostalgiaville.com /Mississippi/natchez%20trace/natcheztrace.htm (2740 words)

	Manuel Gayoso and Spanish Natchez
		His administrative strategies used in establishing the city of Natchez for the Spanish allowed that city to have a tremendous influence on Mississippi’s territorial days and early statehood.
		Explain to the students that the Spanish government chose Manuel Gayoso to organize the Natchez District because he possessed many of these qualities.
		His effectiveness as a leader allowed Natchez to become a city with cultural and political influence in Mississippi’s territorial and early statehood periods.
	teacherexchange.mde.k12.ms.us /mhnlp/manuelgayosolp.htm (655 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.
		Planter of the Concord Plantation and governor of the Spanish district of Natchez.
		Vidal was secretary to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Spanish Governor of the Natchez District (1792-1997).
	www.lib.lsu.edu /special/guides/natchez.html (10213 words)

	Natchez Mississippi(MS) 03/05/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Nucleus of early settlements in the Natchez District.
		The hereditary chief of the Natchez tribe was called the "Great Sun." His house stood on this mound during the period of French colonization at Natchez.
		Archaeological and historical evidence indicates that the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians was not really a "village." It was the main ceremonial mound center for the Natchez Indians during the early period of French exploration and colonization of the Natchez area (1682 - 1730).
	travel.nostalgiaville.com /Mississippi/natchez30501.htm (1245 words)

	The Regional Review (1939) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		England held the Natchez district from 1763 until ousted by the Spanish in 1779, while the young United States succeeded to English claims along the Mississippi at the close of the American Revolution.
		The Natchez Trace lost its importance as a through route; sections of it were abandoned while other parts became neighborhood roads and links between small settlements, as was the case before the white man's coming.
		The significance of the Natchez Trace lay in the political, military and economic importance of the two towns of Natchez and Nashville at the close of the eighteenth century and in the opening years of the nineteenth.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/regional_review/vol2-4d.htm (2656 words)

	December 2004 Engineer Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Without this project, the entire Historic District of Natchez was at risk, and landslides had already claimed lives and businesses.
		Representatives of Vicksburg District and the City of Natchez accepted the award in September in Louisville, Ky., for their efforts.
		According to Natchez City Engineer David Gardner, the project was an excellent example of cooperation at the local and federal levels where the city partnered with Vicksburg District to create new and innovative ways to stabilize the historic bluffs.
	www.hq.usace.army.mil /cepa/pubs/dec04/story14.HTM (596 words)

	The Munsons of Texas: Early Munsons of the South
		Evidence suggests that they may have been migrating from South Carolina to Kentucky, back to Virginia, and on to the Natchez District just as the new nation was being organized and the first census was being taken.
		In 1787 Robert and Jesse Munson were awarded Spanish land grants in the Natchez District of New Spain for a total of 1,582 acres.
		Robert's known family in the Natchez District was wife Winifred, a son, Telfair, and two daughters.
	www.munsons-of-texas.net /c4.html (4747 words)

	Ancestors Of George & Hazel Mullins: Chapter 5 - Mississippi Territory
		The cession of the Natchez District in 1798 and the purchase of Louisiana in 1803 did not dislodge the Spanish from what had been until 1779 British West Florida.
		A wagon trail led south from Natchez to the growing town of Woodville which had been founded in 1808 and, even without water access, was rapidly becoming the commercial and cultural center of a booming cotton economy.
		So many Scotch-Irish settled in the Pearl River Valley to the east of Pike County that this area was second only to the Natchez District in density of population during the period 1810 to 1830.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~pmullins/chapter05.htm (2001 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The new Third District is primarily comprised of the former Third and Fourth Districts.
		Congressman Pickering is opening and moving district offices to meet the needs of the expanded district.
		Note that the Washington DC office has moved this year, and also be mindful that the new security measures for House mail in Washington DC adds an additional several day delay to all mail.
	www.house.gov /pickering/Brookhaven.htm (233 words)

	Natchez District Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Many cotton planters became so wealthy that they enslaved hundred of African Americans, built elegant mansions in and around the town of Natchez and hired overseers to live at an manage their plantations in the countryside.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Natchez_District (846 words)

	Historic Natchez Conference
		The Historic Natchez Conference explores the history of the Natchez region.
		The 2004 conference, “South by Southwest: Exploring the History of the Old Natchez District,” brings together recognized scholars, archivists, students, and the general public to discuss subjects as diverse as the planter aristocracy, the slave trade, Irish immigration, the Civil Rights era, free African Americans, and World War II.
		The purpose of the Historic Natchez Conference is to foster the study, preservation, and appreciation of the history of the Natchez region by providing a forum for established scholars, graduate students, representatives from major archival collections, and the general public to share research, resources, and ideas.
	www.natchez.org /historic_natchez_conference.htm (1050 words)

	Online Book: Special History Report - The Colbert Raid
		Captain de la Villebeuvre, as commandant of the Natchez District, in the autumn of 1779 had taken measures to strengthen the fort guarding the town.
		A number of British settlers of the Natchez District were in contact with Maj. Gen.
		Word was sent to the Natchez Loyalists that a British fleet was in the Gulf, and that it was about to move against New Orleans.
	www.nps.gov /arpo/colbert/IIb.htm (619 words)

	Katherine S. Minor Papers
		The marriage of John Minor and Katherine Surget joined two of the wealthiest families in the Natchez district, if not the whole antebellum south.
		She openly expressed her frustrations and fears, not only for her family, but for the Leveriches, who would certainly have shared in the suffering if the Minors had not been able to struggle through the bleakest years of 1866 and 1867.
		Kate's letters make it clear that she was an active partner in the running of the family's Palo Alto and Carthage cotton plantations near Natchez, one or both of which might have come from her family.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Gurls/Guides/Minor.html (1398 words)

	Adams County Historical Markers
		is grave of orator and statesman who cam from Maine to Natchez in 1827 and won fame in law and politics, serving with distinction in legislature and in congress.
		This park, a Natchez Bicentennial project, was dedicated April 4, 1976, to celebrate the birth of the nation and town.
		This was the first Methodist congregation in Natchez formed in the early 1800s, and the 1st building was constructed in 1807.
	www.ssrc.msstate.edu /grr/adamshm.html (1326 words)

	Preservationists, neighbors defend Natchez homes - Thursday, 03/03/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While the fate of the two homes is still up in the air, Bransford said she hoped the multiple community groups would continue to meet with Habitat for Humanity to lay the groundwork for future partnerships.
		The district consists of 81 properties and comprises the entire length of Natchez Street as well as several streets perpendicular to it.
		Boundaries are Columbia Avenue on the east, Ninth Avenue South on the north, West Main Street, 11th Avenue South and Park Street on the west and Granbury Street on the south.
	www.tennessean.com /reviewappeal/news/archives/05/01/66349608.shtml?Element_ID=66349608 (790 words)

	meth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At Natchez Gibson’s cousin, Randall Gibson, lived; he and his wife and William and Rachel Foster and abut four others were first memebers; A Rev. Swayze (J.p 29-ff) had been pastor of a congregational church; some descendeants of this preacher live in and are memebers of First Church, Monroe (Marcus Swayze)
		Louisiana District: Ebenezer Hearn, PE; Attakapas 27/50 and Rapides 22/40, B.M. Drak and Thomas Clinton; Washitaw, 50/3 William A. Alexander.
		The development of Methodism on the whole was from a circuit to a district, and from a district as it grew into a Conference.
	www.centenary.edu /library/archives/meth.html (5052 words)

	Mississippi, state, United States: History
		Hernando De Soto's expedition undoubtedly passed (1540–42) through the region, then inhabited by the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez, but the first permanent European settlement was not made until 1699, when Pierre le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville, established a French colony on Biloxi Bay.
		English colonists, many of them retired soldiers, had made the Natchez district a thriving agricultural community, producing tobacco and indigo, by the time Bernardo de Gálvez captured it for Spain in 1779.
		In 1817 Mississippi became a state, with substantially its present-day boundaries; the eastern section of the Mississippi Territory was organized as Alabama Territory.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0859677.html (1488 words)

	Slavery in America
		Learn about this Natchez slave who taught hundreds of slaves and freedpeople during and after the Civil War.
		Ibrahima Abd ar-Rahman Jallo was a Muslim prince who was also a slave in the old Natchez district of Mississippi, and the most famous African American in the late 1820s.
		One of the most effective organizers of a formal segment of the Underground Railroad was a free African American named William Still.
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /narratives/overview.htm (780 words)

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