| Mississippi (Adams County), Natchez — Forks of the Road |
| | Site of the South's second largest slave market in the 19th century. Enslaved people were also once sold on city streets and at the landing at Natchez Under the Hill. Natchez slaves were freed in July, 1863, when Union troops occupied the city. The Forks of the Road market then became a refuge for hundreds of emancipated people. — Map (db m4753) |
| Mississippi (Adams County), Natchez — Fort Rosalie |
| | On bluff to south stood Ft. Rosalie, established by the French in 1716. Became nucleus of settlements from which the Mississippi Territory was founded. Near this marker stood the French warehouse that was a center of bloodshed during the Natchez Massacre of 1729.
Dedicated December 11, 1988
by the Mississippi State Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mrs. D. Kelly Love, State Regent — Map (db m5143) |
| Mississippi (Adams County), Natchez — Natchez |
| | First Settled by French 1716-29. Lasting growth came with Britain, 1763-1779, and Spain, 1779-98. Cotton and trade made it commercial and cultural capital of Old South. — Map (db m4479) |
| Mississippi (Adams County), Natchez — Richard N. Wright |
| | Noted African-American author of Native Son and Black Boy was born in 1908 near Natchez, where he spent his early childhood. His lifelong quest for freedom led him to Paris, France, where he died in 1960. — Map (db m10059) |
| Mississippi (Adams County), Natchez — Spanish Colonial Natchez — 1779 ~ 1798 |
| | Following acquisition of the Natchez District in 1779, the Spanish founded the City of Natchez ca.1790 to serve as the capital. Under Governor Manuel Gayoso, the city was planned and surveyed by John Girault in a typical Spanish grid plan around a central plaza and church with a common, on the bluff of the Mississippi River.
Dedicated March 27, 1998
by the Mississippi State Society Daughters of the American Revolution,
Mrs. Erwin Connel Ward, State Regent,
to commemorate the . . . — Map (db m10058) |
| Mississippi (Adams County), Natchez — The First Presbyterian Church |
| | Congregation organized in 1817. The Sanctuary was built in 1828-29 and enlarged in 1851. The Romanesque Revival rear addition was built in 1900 in honor of Joseph Stratton, Pastor, 1843-1903. The church and its companion manse on South Rankin Street are two of the finest Federal style buildings in Mississippi. — Map (db m19027) |
| Mississippi (Adams County), Natchez — The Natchez Trace |
| | Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution in Mississippi 1909.
This historic thoroughfare from Natchez to Nashville, Tenn. was used as a mail route in 1796.
Although it was a well known Indian trail in far earlier days. — Map (db m4555) |
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