Natchez National Historical Park, Natchez Mississippi: Historic Resource Study
1997. Natchez National Historical Park, Natchez Mississippi: Historic Resource Study. Historic Resource Study. Ann Beha Associates. Boston, Massachusetts
The Natchez National Historical Park became an established unit of the National Park Service on October 7, 1988, when President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 100-479 to preserve and interpret the history of Natchez, Mississippi. The park is located within the city limits of Natchez in southwestern Mississippi. Natchez is located in Adams County on the east bank of the Mississippi River. Jackson (the state capital) is 100 miles to the northeast; Vicksburg is 70 miles to the north; Baton Rouge (the state capital of Louisiana) is 90 miles to the south; and New Orleans, Louisiana, is 180 miles to the southeast. Natchez is accessed from both U.S. Highway 61 (from the north and south) and U.S. Highway 84 (from the east and west). Natchez is also at the southern end of the Natchez Trace Parkway, the scenic parkway that commemorates the Natchez Trace, the historic trail that linked Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee, and crossed the northwestern corner of Alabama. The nearest major commercial airports are in Jackson, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. Three steamboats, operating as modern-day cruise ships, annually bring thousands of tourists to Natchez and dock at Natchez Under-the-Hill, the historic river port beneath the Natchez bluffs.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 1997
- Publisher
- Ann Beha Associates
- Units
- HIST , NATC
- Keywords
- acquisition, Assessment, Collections, Construction, Cultural Resources, ehistory, English, Evaluation, Exploration, French, History, Location, Melrose Estate, Mississippi, Native Americans, Resource, Spanish