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6 unusual facts about Natchez


Andrew Marschalk

His first ballad, deemed "The Gallery Slave," energized the small town of Natchez, Mississippi.

Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft

Christened Carla Maria Concetta Francesca Malagola Cappi, she was the elder daughter of the Italian Count Guido Malagola Cappi and his wife, Alexandra (née Dunbar-Marshall) who had come over with her mother from Natchez, Mississippi to settle in Europe.

Durham, Connecticut

Phineas Lyman (1716–74) major general in the Connecticut militia during the French and Indian War who later led settlers to a tract of land near Natchez, Mississippi

Geeshie Wiley

Ishman Bracey (whose testimony may not be reliable) stated Wiley hailed from Natchez, Mississippi, and was romantically linked to Papa Charlie McCoy.

Sylvan Friedman

Friedman was born in Natchez in Natchitoches Parish, not to be confused with the larger and better known Natchez in Mississippi.

United States House Select Committee on the Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi

The select committee was established January 7, 1842, when Representative William M. Gwin of Mississippi presented to the House a memorial from the president, directors, and company of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi in Natchez, Mississippi.


Adam Lewis Bingaman

7 Bingaman's reputation as an orator was heightened by his speech to General Andrew Jackson at Natchez in January 1840.8

Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz

During the uprising by the Natchez, Chickasaw and Yazoo, which Le Page described in detail, the Natives destroyed the Fort Rosalie and killed nearly all of the male French colonists there.

Blanche Douglass Leathers

She was the daughter-in-law of Captain T. P. Leathers, who was commander of the Natchez in its historic 1870 race with Robert E. Lee.

Carpenter, Mississippi

A former railroad town located seven miles from Utica in the extreme northwestern corner of the county, Carpenter was named for Joseph Neibert Carpenter, president of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbia Railroad.

Don José Vidal

The Spanish Commandant, José Vidal, preferred to remain on Spanish territory, and petitioned the Spanish Governor-General Manuel Gayoso de Lemos for a land grant across the Mississippi River from Natchez.

Greg Iles

He has since recovered and is now finishing a trilogy of novels featuring Penn Cage which is set in Natchez, Mississippi, Iles's hometown.

Gulf languages

However, a number of specialists on Muskogean languages, including Mary Haas and Pamela Munro Munro (1995) have regarded the hypothesis of a Gulf family of languages as promising; Haas thought the closest language to Muskogean would be Natchez, followed by Tunica, Atakapa, and, rather dubiously, Chitimacha.

James Moore House

House on Ellicott's Hill, Natchez, Mississippi, also known as James Moore House, a U.S. National Historic Landmark

Les Whitt

Survivors included his wife of thirty-four years, Lee Ann Whitt, the educational curator of the zoo who is originally from Meadville in Franklin County in southwestern Mississippi; two daughters, Sarah Mathews, later Sarah Salley, and Hanna Lee Whitt, all of Alexandria, and two brothers, James M. Whitt of Natchez and John V. Whitt, Jr., of Dauphin Island, Alabama.

Natchez language

The earliest sources for the Natchez languages are the chronicles of Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, a French colonist who lived among the Natchez and learned their language.

Natchez Trace Parkway

The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100.

Old Natchez Trace segments listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Old Natchez Trace (132-3T), located northeast of Port Gibson in Claiborne County, Mississippi, about 0.7 miles north of the Mangum Mound Site at milepost 45.7.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson

In 1787, three Spanish priests, Fathers McKenna, White, and Savage, arrived at Natchez from Salamanca and erected three missions in the vicinity.

Thomas Mayne Reid

In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely).

United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (in case citations, S.D. Miss.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit with facilities in Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Natchez, Meridian, and Jackson.

Washington, Mississippi

Portions of Disney's 1993 movie The Adventures of Huck Finn were filmed here and shot in Natchez, as well as the 1959 John Wayne film The Horse Soldiers.


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