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The Natchez District was recognized to be the area east of the Mississippi River from Bayou Sara in the South (presently St. Francisville, LA) and Bayou Pierre in the North (presently Port Gibson, MS). For the river in Canada, see Mississippi River (Ontario). ...

The Natchez District was the first plantation area in Mississippi and also the richest area in the Deep South before the Civil War. One plantation owner by the name of Stephen Duncan was reported to have owned over 1,000 slaves, making him the wealthiest cotton plantation owner in the world then. Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... A sugarcane plantation at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 2005 A plantation is a large tract of monoculture, as a tree plantation, a cotton plantation, a tea plantation or a tobacco plantation. ...

The area had been known to the Europeans for many years. The French explorer, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, had passed through the area in 1699 and had christened both the Amite River and the Tangipahoa River. In the early 1700s, French colonists began to introduce African slaves and the plantation system to the area. The first important plantation crop was tobacco. Pierre Le Moyne dIberville. ... This article refers to a colony in politics and history. ... This article discusses the history of the slave trade of Africa, and its effect upon the continent. ... // This article is about crop plantations. ... Shredded tobacco leaf for pipe smoking Tobacco can also be pressed into plugs and sliced into flakes Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in genus Nicotiana. ...

By 1776, there was a sizable colony of English-speaking planters there. By a treaty with Spain after the Revolutionary War, the Natchez District became a part of the United States. The area was of great strategic value to the US then because it was the most extreme western and southern limits of the territory claimed by the United States in 1798. In April 1798, the United States created the Mississippi Territory with Natchez as its first capital. all about mississippi! Mississippi state bird is a mocking bird mississippi state tree is mangoila tree ...

Yet, it wasn't until around 1800, when the Whitney’s cotton gin was perfected that planters in the Natchez District became very wealthy. The rich loess soils proved very fertile for cotton cultivation. Many cotton planters became so wealthy that they enslaved hundred of African Americans, built elegant mansions in and around the town of Natchez, and hired overseers to live at and manage their plantations in the countryside. Cotton gin A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seedpods and the sometimes sticky seeds. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

In 1806, an improved Mexican variety of cotton made it even more profitable. The Mexican variety was crossed with the older black seeded species to make improved varieties that made the State of Mississippi famous. The most famous varieties of all, Belle Creole, Jethro, Parker and Petit Gulf, were bred in Mississippi.

Before 1810, Natchez was the only town in the region that was not under foreign control. Because of its strategic importance and its rapid growth as a cotton port, the US government built or improved roads leading to Natchez. The US Army widened the Natchez Trace into a wagon road and placed it under the care of the Post Office Department. The Natchez Trace was a 440-mile-long path extending from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee, linking the Cumberland, the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers. ...

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Natchez, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1215 words)
	At Natchez the Grand Village of the Natchez is preserved as a National Historic Landmark, and nearby Emerald Mound, an earlier ceremonial center, may be seen near the Natchez Trace Parkway [1].
	At Natchez, many local cotton plantation owners loaded their cotton onto steamboats at the landing known as "Natchez-Under-the-Hill" and transported downriver to New Orleans or sometimes upriver to Saint Louis, Missouri or Cincinnati, Ohio, where the cotton would be sold and transported to Northern spinning mills.
	Natchez is known for its many Antebellum mansions and estates, built by 19th century plantation owners who would often own farmland in Louisiana but locate their homes on the higher ground in Mississippi.

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