Natchez is more than plantation homes and pilgrimages - the Mississippi River town offers visitors plenty of places to eat, shop, play, and explore the city's history.

Natchez was well known in the antebellum South. It was the home to multiple millionaires by the mid 19th century, enriched in part from the cash crops such as cotton and the use of slave labor.

From grand to unusual, these five old homes in Mississippi offer a look into the past and they date back to the 1700s.

Before she shut herself up in her Natchez plantation home 40 years ago, Jane Surget ("Miss Jennie") Merrill, spinster, daughter of a onetime U. S. Minister to Belgium, was widely reputed ...

ACHERIE, La. — The stretch of the Mississippi River south of Natchez, Miss., was once home to more millionaires than any other region of the United States. Today, the riverbank is dotted with ...

Natchez Pilgrimage on tour operators itineraries Joyce Dalton NATCHEZ, Miss. -- Mention traditional cultures and the worlds most remote realms spring to mind. But travelers need not roam so far ...

The South holds plenty of untold stories. One of them is that Margaret Mitchell wrote almost all of Gone With the Wind and conjured up the world's most famous plantation house, while dwelling ...

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