Natchez may refer to:
Places
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Natchez, Alabama
Natchez is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Alabama, United States. It was the birthplace of William C. Maxwell, a pilot in the United States Army Air Service and namesake of Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. The New ...
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Natchez, Indiana
Natchez is an unincorporated community in Halbert Township, Martin County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
History
A post office was established at Natchez in 1844, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1905. The community was li ...
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Natchez, Louisiana
Natchez is a village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 597 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Natchitoches Micropolitan Statistical Area. The village and parish are part of the Cane River National Herita ...
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Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez ( ) is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,520 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisiana, Natchez was ...
, a city in southwestern Mississippi, United States
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Natchez slave market
The Natchez slave market was a slave market in Natchez, Mississippi in the United States. Slaves were originally sold throughout the area, including along the Natchez Trace that connected the settlement with Nashville, along the Mississippi R ...
, Mississippi
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Grand Village of the Natchez
Grand Village of the Natchez ( 22 AD 501), also known as the Fatherland Site, is a site encompassing a prehistoric indigenous village and earthwork mounds in present-day south Natchez, Mississippi. The village complex was constructed starting ...
, a site of Plaquemine culture in Adams County, Mississippi
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Natchez Trace
The Natchez Trace, also known as the Old Natchez Trace, is a historic forest trail within the United States which extends roughly from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, linking the Cumberland River, Cumberland, Tennessee River, ...
, a historic trail from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee
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Natchez Trace Parkway
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a limited-access national parkway in the Southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Natchez Trace and preserves sections of that original trail. Its central feature is a two-lane road that extends 44 ...
, a United States National Parkway
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Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District
The Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is roughly bounded by S. Canal St., Broadway, and the Mississippi River.
History
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Peoples and cultures
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Natchez language
The Natchez language is the ancestral language of the Natchez people who historically inhabited Mississippi and Louisiana, and who now mostly live among the Muscogee and Cherokee peoples in Oklahoma. The language is considered to be either unrela ...
, the language of the Natchez people
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, a Native American nation, namesake of the Mississippi city
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Les Natchez
''Les Natchez'' is a romance written by François-René de Chateaubriand, during his exile in England, and printed in 1825–1826. Its subject is the Natchez people ttps://archive.org/details/dcouverteett01marg The Internet Archive website
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'', a novel by French author François-René de Chateaubriand
* ''The Natchez'', a painting by
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French people, French Romanticism, Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: ...
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Natchez (film)
''Natchez'' is an 2025 American documentary film, directed and produced by Suzannah Herbert. It explores Natchez, Mississippi, which relies on antebellum tourism to survive, reckoning with the past, an uncertain future, and what it owes to descend ...
, an 2025 American documentary film
Ships
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''Natchez'' (boat), several vessels of the same name
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USS ''Natchez'', three U.S. Navy ships of the same name
Other uses
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Naiche
Chief Naiche ( ; –1919) was the final hereditary chief of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians.Johansen, Bruce E"Naiche (ca. 1857–1919)." ''Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.'' (retrieved 25 Sept 201 ...
, also known as Natchez, the son of Cochise and last hereditary ruler of the Chiricahua Apaches
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Natchez (horse)
Natchez (1943–1952) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who set two track records and equaled another. He was bred by Walter M. Jeffords, Sr. and raced by his wife, Sarah.
Racing career
At age three, under trainer Oscar White, Natchez d ...
, American racehorse
See also
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Naches (disambiguation)
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