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ID: 7017545
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Record Type: administrative |
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Natchez (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 31 33 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 31.5500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 091 24 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -91.4000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Survived a massacre in 1729 by Natchez tribe, for whom it was later named; passed from France to England in 1763; was haven for loyalists during American Revolution; captured by Spanish in 1779; US took possession in 1798; early Indian mounds are nearby. |
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| Natchez (preferred,C,V)
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| Natches (C,V)
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| Naches (C,V)
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| Fort Panmure (C,V)
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| Fort Rosalie (H,V)
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............ | 1716 to ca. 1750 |
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Adams (county) (P) |
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Natchez (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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established in 1716 as Fort Rosalie by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville; previously inhabited by Natchez tribe |
| city (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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for timber, petroleum & natural gas |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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for rubber, wood, paper & textile products |
| educational center (C) |
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home to Natchez Junior College & Natchez Center (a branch of the University of Southern Mississippi) |
| capital (H) |
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of Territory of Mississippi, from 1798 to 1802 |
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