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Natchez is approximately 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, which is located in the central part of the state. It is approximately 85 miles (137 km) north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, located on the lower Mississippi River. Natchez is the 28th largest city in the state.
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- Adams County, Mississippi
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The city of Natchez, Mississippi, was founded in 1716 as...
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9 hours ago · In 1729, a conflict known as the Natchez Revolt resulted in the deaths of over 200 French colonists and the eventual dispersal of the Natchez people (Barnett, 2007). This event, along with the growing influence of the French in the region, set the stage for the development of a plantation society that would define Natchez for generations to come.
Natchez, city, seat (1817) of Adams county, southwestern Mississippi, U.S., on the Mississippi River (there bridged to Vidalia, Louisiana), about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Vicksburg. Established in 1716 as Fort Rosalie by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, it survived a massacre (1729) by.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Built on a bluff nearly 200 feet above the Mississippi, Natchez offers the greatest view of the greatest river in North America. Every day in Natchez ends with an extravagant, blazing sunset that melts beyond the great river into the vast western sky.
Natchez, officially the City of Natchez, is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,520 at the 2020 census.
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Natchez (/ ˈ n æ tʃ ɪ z / NATCH-iz), officially the City of Natchez, is the county seat and the only incorporated city of Adams County in the state of Mississippi.
