Sightseeing
History BuffGrand Village of the Natchez
No admission feeWalk among rebuilt ceremonial mounds where the Natchez people held their main religious and political ceremonies until 1730, with a small museum and nature trail.
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SightseeingHistory BuffQuirky Fun
Longwood
Take a guided tour of an unfinished octagonal mansion crowned by an onion dome, left incomplete when the Civil War began.
140 Lower Woodville Rd · Natchez, MS
About Longwood
Longwood is an unfinished octagonal mansion crowned by an onion dome, designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan for cotton planter Haller Nutt. Work stopped in 1861 when the Northern craftsmen left at the start of the Civil War, and only the nine basement rooms of the 32 planned were completed. Guided tours by Natchez Pilgrimage Tours cover the finished lower level and the bare upper floors, which by the terms of the 1968 donation can never be finished.
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