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.

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 ...

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 ...

NATCHEZ, Miss. — An historic mansion and a tavern that has operate for decades in downtown Natchez have filed for bankruptcy protection from foreclosure. The Natchez Democrat reported that both ...

Thanks to the efforts of architectural preservationists and the pervasiveness of Confederate nostalgia, dozens of elaborately restored antebellum homes and plantation houses fill downtown Natchez ...

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 refineries and ...

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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 ...