Mississippi Territory
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The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that was created under an organic act passed by the Congress of the United States. It was approved and signed
1948 postage stamp depicting the Mississippi Territory
Washington Methodist Church organized in 1799; this building constructed 1828
Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Winthrop Sargent
Governor William C. C. Claiborne
Natchez, Mississippi
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Natchez is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,520 at the 2020 census. Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisia
Mississippi Territory
…latitude to 32°28' North – or approximately the southern half of the present states of Alabama and Mississippi. The territorial capital was originally in Natchez, but was moved to Washington, six miles up the Natchez Trace, on February 1, 1802. The state of Georgia had maintained a claim over almost the entire…
Pearl Street, Natchez
Steamboat Natchez operating out of New Orleans