Talk:Natchez, Mississippi

Adding rival scholar
I added a book to the Reference list by Dr. Ronald L. F. Davis, Good and Faithful Labor: From Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District, 1860-1890,1982. Dr Davis is something of rival scholar to Dr. Michael Wayne, who's book, ''The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District,1860-1880. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press'', 1983 is already on the list. I belive that both books need to be on the list as both were subjected to peer reviewed Journals, two in fact reviewed both books at the same time and in the same time frame, the early 1980s. Just to be clear, the two Journals are: Reviews in American History, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Sep., 1983), pp. 390-393 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2702471

"A PLACE FROZEN IN TIME" Morton Rothstein, Department of History,University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Rothstein thought that Dr. Wayne was "rather like the mirror image of Davis's story” The other review took place in The American Historical Review, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 521-523 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the American Historical Association. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1862715

Dr. Donald Holley of University of Arkansas, Monticello, wrote, “After Davis, Wayne's The Reshaping of Plantation Society appears to describe some other Natchez district”. I ask that the book by Dr. Ronald L. F. Davis stay in the list. It looks like an old fashioned academic donnybrook that shaped how we look at how Sharecropping came about in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. Who are we to spoil the the fun? Shane505 (talk) 21:08, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Copyright violation
I did a manual reversion of this article to the 23:45, 15 May 2006 version by because most of the intervening edits, particularly those of, are cut and paste WP:COPYVIOlations of several pages from the official website of The Natchez Convention & Visitors Bureau (http://www.natchez.ms.us/). 69.3.70.112 02:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC).

Note on economic decline
I added a sentence to that effect -- no source, but it's common knowledge in Mississippi, where I live. It made little sense to me to mention the change from steamboat traffic circa 1900 and then stop short.

compaction
In its day, (1820-1960), Natchez had fierce competition by the very wealthy plantation owners in their building their mansions; and this resulted in heavy compaction of many differng archectural styles at Natchez, more so than any other location in the USA. Perhaps the subject of another paragraph or entire article summarzing all those styles - beyond my knowledge.

chyme willy, IV, nautonier, grand architect, GM / PS !!! aka lil fractal, the goldin spirul fibonace 76.192.7.35 (talk) 10:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Famous Natchezians
Daniel J. Leivick deleted entries for 4 people citing red links as the reason (one of them didn't include any links!). I disagree - by all means remove the ... if they generate a red link, but verifiable statements should not be removed simply because they contain red links. I've reinstated two of them with references, the other two I couldn't find refernces to confirm the statements in a quick google search so I've left them out for now. They were:
 * Political Scientist and Archaeologist Thomas Tolbert was born in Natchez.
 * Drew Stevens, a local storyteller, now residing in Oxford, MS was born and raised in Natchez.

If anyone can find info to support these, please reinstate them. -- Timberframe (talk) 11:22, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

I am removing the following from the list of famous Natchezians due to a lack of notability and references. Bwe1862 (talk) 18:38, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Dwayne Brown, leader of the South Natchez football and baseball teams in the late 1970s. Now resides in Lafayette working for the city.
 * Jennifer Ogden, Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, is a Natchez native.
 * Jason Bruce, football player-Troy University

1729 Natchez Indian attack
The article fails to mention that while most of the French men of the colony were killed, a large number of women and children survived the 1729 massacre, unharmed.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 14:24, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

1947 CBC Radio Interview
I found this online today, thought you people from Natchez might like it. May be some people around that still remember it! A story about a poor girl and a Christmas tree from New Brunswick.

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/celebrations/holiday-treats/no-ordinary-letter-to-santa.html

Adams County only hit by two significant tornadoes since 1950
Natchez has only been hit by two significant tornadoes since 1950. On June 29, 1976 an F2 hit the city and on September 20, 2013 another EF2 hit the city.--Kevjgav (talk) 16:16, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hatnote
I tried removing the hatnote which links to Natchez, per the guidance in WP:HATNOTE that hatnotes should not be used when the article title itself is not ambiguous; this was reverted with the message "For the Natchez people, and anyone who might (or should be) be searching for them instead of the white settlement built on their ancestral homeland, this hatnote is very useful". The relevant policy seems to be "Mention other topics and articles only if there is a reasonable possibility of a reader arriving at the article either by mistake or with another topic in mind". I'd personally expect someone trying to access the article about the Natchez people to go to Natchez or Natchez people, rather than to Natchez, Mississippi, which has the standard "City, State" form described in WP:USPLACE, but I don't personally know whether the Natchez are described (by themselves or others) as "Natchez, Mississippi". Does anyone know whether this is the case? Sneftel (talk) 13:42, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I made a mistake, thinking this article was Natchez, rather than Natchez, Mississippi. My mistake, it was early morning! The hatnote should be removed, I'll do so.Jacona (talk) 16:05, 4 December 2019 (UTC)