Natchez

St. Mary Basilica, Natchez
St. Mary Basilica, Natchez

10. St. Mary Basilica – also check out the beautiful grounds around it


9. Historic Natchez Cemetery


Under-the-Hill Historic District
Under-the-Hill Historic District

8. Under-the-Hill Historic District


Bluff Park, Natchez
Bluff Park, Natchez

7. Bluff Park – interpretative historic markers add the Spanish colonial part of the Natchez story, also a great place to see sunset over the Mississippi River


Horse Drawn Carriage Historic Tour, Natchez
Horse Drawn Carriage Historic Tour, Natchez

6. Horse-drawn Carriage Historic Tour


Longwood, Natchez
Longwood, Natchez

5. Tour the Antebellum Homes of Natchez, including Longwood, Stanton Hall, Rosalie, and many others


Forks of the Road, Natchez, Mississippi
Forks of the Road (Photo: Taylerpomeroy wikimedia user)

4. Forks of the Road and the African-American History and Culture Museum – an appropriate place for somber reflection and respect at the second largest slave trade/auction site in the South


Grand Village of the Natchez - a state historic site
Grand Village of the Natchez – a state historic site

3. Grand Village of the Natchez – a state historic site


Port Gibson civil rights mural
Port Gibson civil rights mural

2. Natchez Trace Parkway (a National Park Service unit and an All-American Road – also in Alabama and Tennessee) and the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail – its southern terminus is at Natchez, from where it heads northeasterly to Nashville, Tennessee – nearby to Natchez, from south to north: Emerald Mound, Natchez State Park, Mount Locust (the only remaining inn, or “stand” on the Parkway), and the Port Gibson Historic District


Natchez National Historical Park
Natchez National Historical Park

1. Natchez National Historical Park – National Park Service interpreters add important historic context the the Natchez story