Our Great Parks
Natchez National Historic Park
Park Type: National Historical Park
The Park is located in: MS
Address:
Superintendent, Natchez National Historical Park
PO Box 1208
Natchez, MS 39121
Phone: 601/442-7047
Park Details:
Europeans settles Natchez beginning with the establishment of a French trading post in 1714. Control of the post passed to Spain in 1779 and then to the United States in 1798. In the decades before the Civil War, Natchez was a commercial, cultural and social center within the South's "cotton belt". Its power and wealth were unmatched by southern towns of comparable size
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