Natchez (/ˈnætʃɪz/) is the county seat and only city of Adams
County, Mississippi, United States. Natchez has a total population of
15,792 (as of the 2010 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 90 miles (140 km)
southwest of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, which is located
near the center of the state. It is approximately 85 miles (137 km)
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.Natchez is some 90 miles (140 km) southwest
of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, which is located near the
center of the state. It is approximately 85 miles (137 km) 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.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 Indian
War (Seven Years' War), they ceded Natchez and near territory to Great
Britain in the Treaty of Paris of 1763. (It later traded other
territory east of the Mississippi River with Great Britain, which
expanded what it called West Florida).After the United States acquired
this area from the British after the American Revolutionary War, the
city served as the capital of the Mississippi Territory and then of
the state of Mississippi. It predates Jackson by more than a century;
the latter replaced Natchez as the capital in 1822, as it was more
centrally located in the developing state. The strategic location of
Natchez, on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, ensured that it
would be a pivotal center of trade, commerce, and the interchange of
ethnic Native American, European, and African cultures in the region;
it held this position for two centuries after its founding. Natchez, Mississippi Top Movies & Young Movies