Our second house to tour in Natchez is Longwood, a 6-story 30,000 square foot mansion designed by Samuel Sloan, a well-known architect from Philadelphia for cotton baron Haller Nutt and...

Few American cities offer an in-depth look at the lives of southerners like Natchez, Mississippi. Founded in 1716, Natchez is the oldest city on the Mississippi River, known for its...

Stanton Hall is a Greek Revival mansion that was built in Natchez during 1851–1857 for Frederick Stanton, a family physician, a wealthy planter, and a cotton broker [represents other planters]....

We saw the following sign as we drove along the parkway and had no idea what it was about. Our question was: do we keep on driving, or do we...

Natchez, Mississippi, is famous for the number of well-preserved antebellum mansions (part 10), its role as the starting point of the historic Natchez Trace Parkway (this post), its deep history...