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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MXU_a-national-road_Natchez-MS.html
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A National Road
Natchez in the extreme south-western corner of the United States was threatened by Spain in 1800 and later by France and Great Britain.
President Jefferson in 1801 decided that a road from Nashville to Natchez was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MXT_old-trace_Natchez-MS.html
Across the Parkway behind you is a portion of the Old Natchez Trace - - a wilderness road that originated from a series of trails used by the southeastern Indian tribes. The Natchez Trace was politically, economically, socially, and militarily imp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MXR_emerald-mound_Natchez-MS.html
Before you is a 30 foot secondary mound on which once stood a temple containing sacred Indian images.
Archeological evidence indicates that at least two small mounds stood along the North and South sides of the primary platform. These mounds ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MX7_origin-of-the-natchez-trace_Natchez-MS.html
After the American Revolution, frontiersmen from the Ohio Valley carried their products down stream to Spanish controlled New Orleans and Natchez.
Returning home, boatmen followed a series of Indian trails from Natchez to Nashville—trails…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MX4_elizabeth-female-academy_Natchez-MS.html
The Natchez Trace was still active and Mississippi had just become a state when the Elizabeth Female Academy opened its doors in November of 1818. Much can be learned about the culture of early Mississippi here in the community of Washington. As t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MX3_site-of-elizabeth-female-college_Natchez-MS.html
First women's college in America chartered on Feb. 17, 1819 to confer degrees on women. Named in honor of Elizabeth Roach, through whose generosity the College was made possible. Audubon was on the faculty.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MX2_elizabeth-female-academy_Natchez-MS.html
First school for women chartered by Mississippi Legislature located here. Elizabeth Roach led in organization. School was important from 1818-1843.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MVK_bluff-park-memorials-and-louisiana-connections_Natchez-MS.html
The Richard Wright historic marker recognizes the city's most famous 20th-century writer. Born in 1908 on a cotton plantation near Natchez, Wright spent his early childhood in town in the home of his grandparents at 20 East Woodlawn Avenue (pictur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MVJ_bluff-park-playground-for-the-city_Natchez-MS.html
When the Spanish laid out the town of Natchez about 1790, they set aside land on the bluff for use as a public park. In 1839, after the city had sold off most of the park and built Broadway Street, writer Joseph Holt Ingraham complained that "…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MVI_bluff-park-and-south-broadway-street_Natchez-MS.html
Bontura, built in 1851, was the home of Robert Smith, a free African American who ran the city's most successful carriage business in the 1850s. The house stands at the head of Silver Street, which leads to Natchez Under-the-Hill. Smith and his dr…