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| Close quarters at the park. Lyle did an amazing job of parking so that the tree was a full 6 inches from the slide. :) |
Established in 1716, Natchez is a popular destination for heritage tourism because of its many antebellum mansions that survived the Civil War. The homes form a major part of the city's architecture and identity. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the city attracted wealthy Southern planters as residents, who built mansions. Their plantations occupied the lowlands along the river fronts of Mississippi and Louisiana, where they grew cotton and sugarcane using slave labor. Natchez was the principal port for cotton exports, and the principle city where slaves were bought and sold.
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| Stanton Hall |
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| Longwood |
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| The interior was never completed after war broke out |
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| Looking up at the cupola. |
Jan has always wanted to go to a balloon festival and our visit to Natchez coincided with one.
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This is what it's supposed to look like.
Unfortunately no balloons flew due to high winds throughout the festival. |
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| The music was good, though. |
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| Nice fireworks show after the balloon glow (next photo) |
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| Balloon Glow |
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| Wagner and Silkey women will understand. |
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| Cruise Ship that's a replica of a paddle boat. We've seen this boat docked at every stop along the river from St. Louis, Missouri down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
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| Mississippi River |
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| The city is built on bluffs above the river |
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| Underhill area (riverfront brothels and saloons under the bluffs of Natchez) |
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| Barge traffic on the Mississippi |
The oldest road in America. The Trace Parkway goes 440 miles from Natchez to Nashville.
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| Inns, or stands, provided shelter for travelers along the Natchez Trace from the 1790s to the 1840s |
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| Jan walking down the sunken Trace |
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