Grand Village of the Natchez Indians
National Historic Landmark · Natchez, Mississippi
The ceremonial and political centre of the Natchez nation from the 1680s to 1729, on 128 acres beside St. Catherine Creek — three earthen mounds, a reconstructed Natchez house, a plaza and a museum of material excavated on the site. It is where the Great Sun lived, where the French officers who wrote the only eyewitness accounts of a functioning Mississippian society were received, and where that society ended: after the Natchez destroyed Fort Rosalie in 1729, the French and their Choctaw allies spent two years destroying the Natchez as a nation. The survivors were sold into slavery in the Caribbean or absorbed into the Chickasaw, Creek and Cherokee.
400 Jefferson Davis Boulevard, Natchez, Mississippi, 39120, United States
A Mississippi Department of Archives and History site. Grounds generally open daily during daylight; the museum keeps a reduced week and closes on state holidays — verify before travelling. Admission is free or a small charge.
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