Day 5 – Natchez, Mississippi

King Cotton made Natchez one of the prettiest cities in the USA.  Before the Civil War put an end to plantation riches, Natchez had more millionaires than anywhere outside New York or Boston.  Planters built palatial dwellings for their wives and children in town, distant from the fields which were often in Louisiana.  We stopped three places on our hop-on hop-off tour.

Visitor Center had a good movie on Natchez history. Home of a freed slave that made good with a number of barber shops. Poor guy was murdered. Killer got away because courts would not accept the word of black witnesses against white killer. Stanton Hall. Planter spent years building mansion died months after he moved in – in 1859. Restored to its former splendor by the ladies of the Pilgrimage Garden Club. One end of the parlor at Stanton Hall

Today I visit the battlefield at Vicksburg.