Location: Natchez
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Top 5 Hidden Gems Things to do in Natchez, Mississippi (MS)
Natchez, the oldest settlement on the Mississippi River, has more antebellum houses than any other place in the United States. Many of these historic homes are open for tours. The friendly local people welcome visitors to their historic city with warm Southern charm. Tour the homes, the Grand Village of the Natchez and the Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture. Festivals and celebrations occur often throughout the year. For gamblers, the riverboat gaming experience is a fun and fascinating change from ordinary casinos. Active visitors will enjoy great golf, tennis, hiking, biking and fishing.
Restaurants in Natchez
1. Historic Natchez Cemetery
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4.5 based on 523 reviews
Reviewed By JoeBickham - Covington, United States
Our Host Doug and Don loaned us a audio CD that told us the story from all the grave markers of each person or family buried here...very fascinating history
2. Auburn Museum & Historic Home
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4.5 based on 85 reviews
Reviewed By Valpo1974 - Valparaiso, United States
Janet presented so much history and tidbits about the furnishings of Auburn! The stairway is magnificent - guests cannot climb it, however. It was interesting to look down from the second floor through the stairs. The ladies of the two garden clubs have done a remarkable job of preserving so many of the elegant mansion homes.
3. Under The Hill Saloon
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4.5 based on 150 reviews
Reviewed By 3xtime - Fenton, United States
Friendly little riverfront bar with a lot of history and great bartender. Good selection of beer. Live entertainment in the evenings and weekends.
4. Emerald Mound
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4.0 based on 246 reviews
Emerald Mound is the second-largest Indian mound in America.
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
Located off the Natchez Trace Parkway, near Stanton, Mississippi, north of Natchez, the Emerald Mount Site is described as a Plaquemine culture Mississippian period archaeological site that dates from the period between 1,200 and 1,730 AD. The second largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the United States, after Monk's Mound in Cahokia, Illinois, it was used by the Natchez people for their main ceremonial center in the 1500s and 1600s. The mound covers eight acres, measuring 770 feet by 435 feet at the base and is 35 feet in height. By the late 1730s, the Natchez had abandoned the Emerald Mount site, possibly because of social upheaval that followed extensive fatalities from European diseases introduced to the American Southeast by the Spanish expedition in the 1540s, and moved to the Grand Village of the Natchez, 12 miles to the southwest. This settlement appears to have been one of the last active expressions of the large platform mound-building culture along the Mississippi River. Beginning in 1838, archaeological excavations uncovered eight secondary mounds and a large encircling trench. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
5. Glenfield Plantation
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4.5 based on 20 reviews
