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Natchez National Historical Park

Adams County, US

Natchez National Historical Park

Natchez National Historical Park interprets and preserves the history of Natchez, Mississippi, and is managed by the National Park Service. The park consists of four separate sites: Fort Rosalie preserves the site of an eighteenth-century French colonial fortification. It was later renamed "Fort Pan

mure" and later passed successively under British, Spanish, and United States control. The fort site is open to the public. The William Johnson House preserves the home of William Johnson, a free Black barber and businessman in nineteenth-century Natchez whose diary has been published. Melrose was the plantation estate of John T. McMurran, a lawyer, state senator, and planter who lived in Natchez from 1830 until the American Civil War. Forks of the Road Market is the site of the second-largest domestic slave market in the Deep South between 1832 and 1863. This unit of the park opened in an official ceremony on June 18, 2021. Both the Melrose and the William Johnson houses contain furnishings related to life in antebellum Natchez, as well as other exhibits. The collection at Melrose's two-story Greek Revival house and quarters used by enslaved people include painted floor cloths, mahogany...

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