Natchez Under-the- Hill - Life on the Riverfront
On May 8, 1840, one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history struck Natchez and killed about 300 people. Most of the dead were boatmen and passengers on steamboats docked at the...
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- natchez
Natchez Under-the- Hill and the Steamboat Era
For most of the 1800s, the prime mover of commerce and passengers on the Mississippi River was the steamboat, which was invented by Robert Fulton in 1807. The combination of the steamboat, the...
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- natchez
Wilkinson County Museum
c. 1834 Originally office and banking house of the West Feliciana Railroad. Today headquarters of Woodville Civic Club.
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- woodville
- railroad
A Fight at Midnight
On the afternoon of April 30, 1863, Confederate General Martin E. Green posted his brigade near Magnolia Church to defend this route to Port Gibson. Just after midnight, Green's pickets, stationed...
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- civil war
Reconciliation and Reunions
After the war this house became a symbol of reconciliation between North and South. Although Confederate veteran A.K. "Kell" Shaifer Jr. lost his wife and two sons during the war and had his home...
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- civil war
The Shaifer Farmstead
From here you see where the nineteenth century path intersects with the auxiliary "plantation road." During the battle, this road provided the Union command a direct link with their left...
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- civil war
Myrtle Grove Cemetery
Circa 1837 Myrtle Grove Cemetery was once known as the "Protestant Cemetery." In April 1837, the City of Opelousas named a two man-committee to locate four arpents (an old French unit of...
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- cemetery
- opelousas
Don Diego
La Bufadora
El nombre de "La Bufadora", con el que se conoce este sitio turístico, se escogió en alusión al maravilloso fenómeno natural que aquí sucede, y que solo se puede aprecia en pocos lugares...
Kimberlin on the Brazos Ranch
Kimberlin on the Brazos Ranch Established 1855 by Oliver Loving, Dean of Texas Trail Drivers and Pioneer Cattleman Settled this Loving’s or Big Valley Ranch in 1855 and was granted a...
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- cattle drives
- oliver loving
- charles goodnight
- larry mcmurtry
- lonesome dove