Natchez

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