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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM284R_bluff-park-and-north-broadway-street_Natchez-MS.html
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad built the passenger station on
the bluff shortly after 1910, and the
Illinois Central Railroad was the last
railroad to own it. Like many smal
towns across America, Natchez lost
passenger service as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26V4_natchez-civil-rights-and-old-d-evereux-street_Natchez-MS.html
The Deacons for Defense and Justice armed themselves in self-defense as a response to the attempted murder of local NAACP president George Metcalfe, whose car was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965. The first meeting of the Natchez Deacons was fil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26MC_good-neighbors-alexanders-and-gonnellinis_Natchez-MS.html
Louis and Anna Alexander resided in the craftsman style cottage (above) at 17 St. Catherine Street.Until his death in the late 1940s, Louis Alexander worked at the historic mansion Melrose for George and Ethel Kelly. He died during a trip to Calif…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26M8_still-sacred_Natchez-MS.html
Emerald Mound's size ins impressive. Scholar James Barnett Jr. called it the region's "crowning mound-building achievement" of the Mississippian era (1,150 to 30 years ago). only a complex society mobilized for a massive multi-generational project…
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Trade, art, and ideas linked Emerald Mound, both physically and spiritually, with mound sites throughout the eastern half of North America.Mound building, as a practice, was widespread. Over thousands of years, the native peoples who built mounds …
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Seamstress Laura Davis made the lavish dress and train worn by Cassell Carpenter when she was Pilgrimage Garden Club Queen in 1966. Carpenter posed in the parlor of her home Dunleith for local photographer Mabel Lane, the city's most popular photo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26M1_the-barlands-a-study-in-black-and-white_Natchez-MS.html
The will of William Barland, a wealthy planter and downtown property owner, disclosed an interesting domestic relationship that has long intrigued historians. Proven in 1816, the will legally acknowledged Barland's relationship with "friend and c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26LW_natchez-civil-rights-movement-1965-pivotal-year_Natchez-MS.html
The National Guard patrolled St. Catherine Street on September 3, 1965, not long after the August 27 bombing that nearly killed George Metcalfe, president of the local chapter of the Natchez Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26LT_john-r-lynch-st-catherine-street-land-speculator_Natchez-MS.html
John R. Lynch turned to writing in his later years and wrote the Facts of Reconstruction in 1913. He completed his autobiography Reminiscences of an Active Life when he was 90, two years before his death in 1939.Lynch invested in Adams County real…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26EU_davis-miller-dumas-house-69-st-catherine-street_Natchez-MS.html
Henry Dumas poses on the front steps of 69 St. Catherine Street. Henry managed the Dumas Pharmacy at 707-09 Franklin Street, a building that also housed the medical practice and sanitarium of his brother Dr. Albert W. Dumas, Sr. In 1940 Dr. Dumas …