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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21ZG_intersection-of-south-broadway-and-washington-streets_Natchez-MS.html
Edelweiss is a Swiss Chalet-style building which dates to 1883. The house offered both a great view of the Mississippi River and a convenient location for the family of its first owner, Joseph O'Brien, a coal-dealer at Natchez Under-the-Hill. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21Y1_conflict-with-the-french_Natchez-MS.html
War with the French forced the Natchez Indians to abandon the Grand Village and their other settlements. The war arose from disputes between the Indians and the French over debts and land ownership. In 1729, the Natchez abruptly switched their all…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21UG_intersection-of-jefferson-and-north-union-streets_Natchez-MS.html
Ethel Clagett and Mabel Porter were among the first women in America to own a car dealership that was not inherited from a male spouse or relative. They opened their dealership in 1914 on Main Street and moved to a larger new facility on the south…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21U6_300-block-of-martin-luther-king-street_Natchez-MS.html
300 North Martin Luther King Street (above) is home to the city's oldest funeral business.Robert D. Mackel (below) opened Bluff City Undertaking in 1898 at the corner of Jefferson and North Rankin Streets. About 1911 he relocated the business to i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21U1_views-of-st-catherine-street-western-end_Natchez-MS.html
Photographer Earl Norman stood on Jefferson Street and snapped this view of the intersection of St. Catherine, Martin Luther King and Jefferson streets.A single column of the portico of Zion Chapel A.M.E. Church appears on the far right. Holy Fami…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21TW_hospital-hill-neighborhood_Natchez-MS.html
The portion of St. Catherine Street that extends from the site of the Rhythm Night Club to D'Evereux Street was originally part of the property of the city's first public hospital (above).The hospital fronted St. Catherine and stood on a hill on t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21Q9_20-30-st-catherine-street-and-eduation_Natchez-MS.html
.Eliza Smith, an antebellum "free woman of color," purchased property on St. Catherine Street in the 1850s. Her daughters and their families built new houses on the property in the 1880s.28 St. Catherine Street (above) was the ca. 1885 home of Sar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21LV_music-on-st-catherine-street_Natchez-MS.html
Alexander Lightfoot"Papa George"Papa George Lightfoot [1924-1971], he lived down the street from the alley I came up in, down on St. Catherine Street....He was a hustler, he had a snowball wagon, he sold peanuts. He would blow his harp while selli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20X0_intersection-of-washington-and-south-pearl-streets_Natchez-MS.html
The two matching brick houses at the corner (behind you) date to 1901 and stand on the site of a brick chapel (no longer standing) built in 1849 by the First Presbyterian Church. The chapel held Wednesday evening prayer services, meetings of the W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20OQ_history-of-st-catherine-street_Natchez-MS.html
Pre-Civil War St. Catherine StreetThe road, for the first mile, after leaving town, passed through a charming country, seen at intervals, and between long lines of unpainted, wretched looking dwellings, occupied as 'groggeries' by free negroes, or…
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