Hampton Inn & Suites Natchez

Natchez Parkway is a 444 mile road beginning in Natchez, Mississippi and ending in Nashville, Tennessee. Started in the late 1930s the modern Natchez Trace Parkway parallels the old trace. This is the story of people on the move, of the age old need to get from one place to another. It is the story of Natchez, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians following traditional ways of life, of French and Spanish people venturing into a world new to them and of people building a new nation.

Natchez is the oldest continuous settlement located along the southwestern edge of Mississippi. The Mississippi River was important to the development of Natchez. The first steamboat traveled down from Cincinnati in 1811, pulled into Natchez landing in early 1812 and left the first bale of cotton ever to be shipped by steamboat. It was where cotton planters ...

... killed in the Civil Rights movement carved into the top.  There was a group of college kids there, and a woman from the Southern Poverty Law Center talking to them about the memorial .  The idea was that you could touch the water and the names and events carved there, and also see yourself reflected in the water.   The woman ended up talking with us afterwards, and she took us inside to view a film about the memorial and the Civil Rights movement, and gave us ...

... As a step back in time, this is a disappointment, unless one takes time to get off the road at the numerous turnouts. The first turnout we went on led to Emerald Indian Mound, a football field sized flat hill top with mounds on each end of it. The ancient tribe leveled the hill top and then brought in dirt to build a 30 foot high mound at one end and a 15-20 foot high mound at the other end of this level field. The mounds were the base for ...

Goes without saying. I hope I can have the Thai place tomorrow. It stirs up strong memories, but I want the food, and nobody can deny cook cooking. In fact im starting to not like this place, because it stirs up bad memories. Whatever, I'm making new good ones. fugedaboudit!

Natchez is another incredibly quaint little town on the Mississippi, with a wealth of historic buildings and a fabulous view up and down the river. To get here from Vicksburg you can follow part of the "Natchez Trace Parkway", a quiet, leafy, gently undulating, scenic road. The road actually links Natchez on the Mississippi with Nashville - a long, long, long way to the ...

... the boat, took a bunch of pictures, walked all around it and was ready to go before my parents even passed the first sign. So I walked around the parking lot, took a picture of the military cemetery across the parking lot, and finally went to lean on the car and wait. It was really hot and humid, and the sun was beating down. Finally my parents came back and we finally headed home. We were back on 61, though I kept suggesting ...

G'day Y'all Today we head for Vicksburg the site of a major civil war event. The North took several years to capture Vicksburg. It was a key to controlling the Mississippi, and subsequently the Unions victory. The mayor of Vicksburg, when asked if he intended to surrender said to the Northerners "Mississippians don't know, and refuse to learn ......if Commodore Farragut......can teach them, let him come and try." Which the North did three times. Yesterday we spent ...

... on the Mississippi. We stayed in Natchez State Park campground. The following day we set off up the Parkway in search of an open Plantation house, we decided to see one of the more famous ones called Rosswood. An amazing Greek revival mansion owned by a retired general and his wife. The house was amazing and the hostess had many stories to share with us, particularly as she and her husband had lived in London, Germany ...