Location: Natchez
Top Things to do in Natchez
Top 10 Points of Interest & Landmarks 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. Green Leaves
2. Choctaw Hall
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 87 reviews
Reviewed By WILLIAMS482
Natchez is a nice small town. Very quite. A buddy and I were riding our bikes on the Natchez Trace Parkway, and stayed one night at Choctaw Hall. It was a great place to stay! The best thing about our stay was the tour of the mansion by David Garner. He knew the history, was very interesting to listen to, and very funny. It was a great stay and I highly recommend for anyone. I plan to stay again someday.
3. The Towers
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 20 reviews
The Jeweled Christmas Tour at The Towers is a fabulous display of thousands of pieces of vintage costume jewelry on every table, every tree, every shelf and everything! A sight to behold! All of this is in beautiful whimsical Christmas vignettes. Sparkle abounds! Any visitor will be surely delighted! USAToday.com named us one of the Top Ten Christmas displays in the United States.Tours are Wednesday at 2PM, Fridays at 10AM and 2PM, Saturdays at 10AM, 2PM and 4PM and Sundays at 10AM. Costs is $20 per person. Tours are 1.5 hours. November 24 thru January 5th.
Reviewed By SydaLeaSchnebly - Biloxi, United States
The Christmas decorations are stunning. It's hard to imagine a collection anywhere to come close to this. Everything was done with unparalleled attention to detail. The hostess leading our tour, along with her husband, is the owner, collector and designer of the collection, so we received great detail on the items, the furnishing in the home and the restoration of this beautiful mansion.
4. Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 13 reviews
Reviewed By sskroll - Orlando, United States
A great reinvention of a very old area. The buildings are original and there are shops and restaurants located within them. There is a walkway down the hill that has signage telling about the area.
5. Longwood
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1,559 reviews
Construction on this architectural gem, the largest octagonal house in the U.S., began in 1860, but was interrupted by the onset of war. A National Historic Landmark, the still-unfinished mansion is an enduring symbol of the impact of the Civil War.
Reviewed By PadreGirl - Eureka, United States
We'd been to Natchez before, but never visited Longwood. It's amazing. Only the "basement" level was originally finished due to the coming Civil War. The workers basically left tools and supplies and returned home leaving the huge home unfinished. The tour starts on the basement level where you see how the family lived and then you are able to go upstairs to see the building in progress. The craftsmanship and what they were able to do with hand tools was shocking. The family story was quite interesting as well. There's a nice walk to the family cemetery too. The area is beautiful.
6. William Johnson House
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 186 reviews
Reviewed By AncientTimes
This home belonged to a freed Black Man who became a very successful businessman. His history is eye opening and provides a glimpse of his life and interactions in Natchez before the Civil War
7. The Bridge of Sighs
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 31 reviews
Reviewed By RoseDhu - Bluffton, United States
We wandered over the Bridge of Sighs at the end of a day spent exploring. This was a lovely stop and walk along the Mississippi River...clean, well-maintained, with lots of trash cans and benches along the way. We hung around for a beautiful sunset too.
8. Historic Jefferson College
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 42 reviews
Historic Jefferson College was the birthplace of Mississippi’s statehood in 1817. Established in 1802, the school was the first institution of higher learning chartered in the Mississippi Territory. Today, the site operates as a museum with several original buildings built between 1819 and 1839, including the East Wing, President’s House, and West Wing.
9. Emerald Mound
Overall Ratings
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.
10. Forks of the Roads Monument
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 104 reviews
Reviewed By Valpo1974 - Valparaiso, United States
The information presented on the boards at this intersection make me angry and sad. Angry that this practice occurred, and sad for those who endured it. This grassy hill and the display boards at the site bring the slavery story up close and personal.
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