Airlie (Natchez)
Airlie (a.k.a. "Belvidere" or "Old Buckner Place") is a house in Natchez, Mississippi built in 1793. Location It is located at number 9 on Elm Street in Natchez, Mississippi. History The house was built for Stephen Minor (1760–1815), a prominent plantation owner, in 1793. It is one of the oldest houses in Natchez, dating even to the Spanish colonial period. It was rebuilt in 1800 and was added to several times. and Owned by attorney, cotton planter, and slaveholding entrepreneur William Aylette Buckner before the Civil War. Used as a hospital for Union soldiers in Civil War. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982. The listing included two contributing buildings and one contributing structure In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
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Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez ( ) is the county seat of and only city in Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Natchez has a total population of 14,520 (as of the 2020 census). Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent city in the antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade. Natchez is some southwest of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, which is located near the center of the state. It is approximately north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, located on the lower Mississippi River. Natchez is the 25th-largest city in the state. The city was named for the Natchez tribe of Native Americans, who with their ancestors, inhabited much of the area from the 8th century AD through the French colonial period. History Established by French colonists in 1716, Natchez is one of the oldest and most important European settlements in the lower Mississippi River Valley. After the French lost the French and Ind ...
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Airlie In Natchez
Airlie may refer to: Places ;In Canada *Airlie, Ontario, Canada ;In Scotland *Airlie, Angus *Airlie Castle ;In the United States *Airlie, Oregon *Airlie, Minnesota *Airlie, Virginia People *Airlie (surname) *Earl of Airlie, in the Peerage of Scotland Other uses *Airlie, South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia, a historic house *Airlie Beach, an inhabited place in Queensland, Australia *Airlie (Natchez) Airlie (a.k.a. "Belvidere" or "Old Buckner Place") is a house in Natchez, Mississippi built in 1793. Location It is located at number 9 on Elm Street in Natchez, Mississippi. History The house was built for Stephen Minor (1760–1815), a pr ...

Stephen Minor
Stephen Minor (1760–1815) was an American plantation owner and banker in the antebellum South. Early life Stephen Minor was born on February 8, 1760, in Greene County, Pennsylvania. He then served as the Secretary to the Spanish Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (1747–1799).Herman De Bachelle Seebold, ''Old Louisiana Plantation Homes And Family Trees'', Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2004, p. 22/ref> In 1791, he received generous land grants from the Spanish government for his service. He turned his land grants into nine Plantations in the American South, plantations, including the Southdown Plantation in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, where he grew sugar cane. In 1797, his plantations produced twenty-five hundred bales of cotton. He became one of Natchez's richest residents in the 1810s and 1820s. Additionally, he served as the first President of the Bank of Mississippi from 1797 to 1815. Personal life He resided in Natchez, Mississippi from 1780 to 1815. He purc ...
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Louisiana (New Spain)
Spanish Louisiana ( es, link=no, la Luisiana) was a governorate and administrative district of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1762 to 1801 that consisted of a vast territory in the center of North America encompassing the western basin of the Mississippi River plus New Orleans. The area had originally been claimed and controlled by France, which had named it '' La Louisiane'' in honor of King Louis XIV in 1682. Spain secretly acquired the territory from France near the end of the Seven Years' War by the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762). The actual transfer of authority was a slow process, and after Spain finally attempted to fully replace French authorities in New Orleans in 1767, French residents staged an uprising which the new Spanish colonial governor did not suppress until 1769. Spain also took possession of the trading post of St. Louis and all of Upper Louisiana in the late 1760s, though there was little Spanish presence in the wide expanses of the "Illi ...
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Library Of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains a conservation center in Culpeper, Virginia. The library's functions are overseen by the Librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the Architect of the Capitol. The Library of Congress is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 470 languages." Congress moved to Washington, D.C., in 1800 after holding sessions for eleven years in the temporary national capitals in New York City and Philadelphia. In both cities, members of the U.S. Congress had access to the sizable colle ...
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