Natchez Mississippi

 

12th January 2019.

Beautiful Natchez on the banks of the Mississippi, full of lovely old antebellum houses. We camped at an RV Park on the banks of the river, but on the Louisiana side. A beautiful spot where we could have our morning coffee and watch the mist rolling in.

The Mississippi Delta is still surprisingly segregated, speaking to the locals the white kids are all in private schools or home schooled. We saw some of the private schools, big, old, stately buildings. The state school was over our side of the river, RV parks always seem to be in the poorer or industrial areas, it was not a very inspiring building but I was told that the state schools do get a lot more funding from the government.

Mississippi being one of the more religious states in the USA, they had a travelling Pastor staying at the RV Park so I decided to go along to his and his wife’s Sunday service. I couldn’t persuade the others to join me which was probably a good thing because he was so intensely talking about righteousness that for sure someone would have caught someone else’s eye and started giggling. It would not have gone down well.

Sunday service done and dusted, we are now off to New Orleans.

Natchez Under the Hill

 

The area known as Natchez Under-the-Hill, was once a thriving port where cotton was loaded onto paddlewheelers and shipped North to textile mills for processing. The Under the Hill Saloon, is the oldest pub in the area, its patrons back in the day were cut-throats, prostitutes and thieves, nothing like the fab families and their dogs that visit it today.

Fork in the road

 

 

Fork in the Road

 

Site of the Natchez Slave Maket

Natchez Dunleith

 

Dunleith is an antebellum (pre civil war) mansion built about 1855, it is Mississippi's only plantation house with a fully encircling colonnade of Greek Revival columns.

One reply on “Natchez Mississippi 12.1.19”

  1. Wow….you are a live history book. What history is all over America……bit older than we are….

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