We spent this past weekend at River View RV Park in
Vidalia, LA, right across the Mississippi River from Natchez. We had a great
view of the river barge traffic going up and down the river and the RV park was
very nice.
On Sunday morning we went to the Natchez
Visitors Center and decided to take an “open-air” tour (in a large golf cart)
of historic Natchez. We enjoyed seeing several antebellum homes (pre-Civil
War). The houses with red doors indicated that their mortgages were paid
off.
After lunch we visited the
Forks of the Road Historical Site, the National Cemetery, and Emerald Mound, a
historic site built and used by Mississippians about 1300-1600, ancestors of
the Natchez Indians.
From Emerald Mound we went
to Grand Village of the Natchez Indians. It turned out they were having a Pow
Wow with tribes from as far away as Oklahoma.
We enjoyed dinner our last
night in Natchez at Magnolia Grill on Silver Street in historic “Natchez
Under-the-Hill” right next to the Mississippi River.
We left Natchez yesterday
and drove 70-miles north up the road to Vicksburg for a 2-night stay and more
sightseeing.
Steve & Julie
Cornelius
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