National Historical Parks - Mississippi

Natchez National Historical Park

9/29/1997 Continued south to Natchez where, after circling a bit, we found the Melrose Mansion [NHL] (in Natchez National Historic Park). Got there at 4:05, but luckily got a personalized tour. Beautiful home and furnishings - great painted oilcloth floor in one room, huge wooden fan over the dining room table (for flies). Took a little walk around the outside, but the site was closing ...

The park sign

Melrose Mansion

4/30/2023 Melrose NHL, also in the Natchez NHP. An 1840 home that achieves "perfection" in Greek Revival design; the site includes the two-story mansion and its slave quarters ... Forks of the Road (in Natchez NHP). This is the site of the second largest domestic slave market in the Deep South. In the mid-19th century, tens of thousands of men, women, and children were brought in chains and coffles from the Upper South to the slave market in Natchez.

Entering the NHP area

Sign for Melrose

The mansion and outbuildings

Me and Ken in a 360

Impressive "back" of the mansion ...

... and the front

Ken reading at Forks

On the Underground Railroad

Lots ...

... of interpretive ...

... signage

Ex-slaves in the Civil War

The slavery business cycle

More about slave trading