Great day in Natchez!

May 22 – Other than no or limited phone service, this is a very nice park!  Quiet and no children during the week until school gets out.  We are only about 15 minutes in to Natchez so we weren’t in a rush this morning as we had a good breakfast and eventually left about 10. 



Natchez Down Under



We covered all of the sites we had planned to see.  We went to Natchez Down Under and perused the one shop there and met a solid black cat that reminded us of Bob, our house cat, at my family’s business.  He just showed up one day and now is the official store cat!  The Mississippi River was not too muddy considering the water making its way south from Oklahoma.

 

 

Rosalie

Melrose

Stanton

Elliott

After a stop at the visitor center where they showed an excellent movie, (and we jumped a couple’s car who he didn’t even know what was his battery), we checked out the Rosalie home, Elliott Hill home, Stanton House, and the last was the Melrose Mansion. All were quite beautiful and the Melrose Mansion still maintains all of the out buildings as well.  It is part of the National Park Service.  Our last and longest stop was the William Johnson House that is also part of the National Park Service.  That was more of a history lesson!  He was ¾ white and ¼ black and his wife was 50/50.  He was freed by his father/owner and became a successful businessman.  He was murdered at the age of 42 leaving his wife and 11 children.  He was killed by a neighbor but the witnesses were not allowed to testify since they were black.  It’s a very interesting life story and his wife looked Caucasian and not much is known of his children.  He wrote a daily journal for years and that is how the story of his life is known.

Bill asked around about lunch spots and most close at 2.  We ended up on Main St. at the Biscuit and Blues.  I had the muffaletta appetizer and Bill had a po’ boy.   Yum!  Perfect meal! 

On the way out of town we stopped at a local store, Wal-Mart!  Time to restock the fruits and veggies and a few other items.  Can’t believe it’s been a week already! 

On the way back we took a different road and found a much better way to get back on Rt. 61 for our trip to Vicksburg tomorrow.  The campground appears to have a few more sites filled tonight than last night.  There are 2 nice motorhomes across from us, a Newmar and a Monoco.  $$$$

I took a pill and made Italian sausage meatballs with red sauce and served it over spaghetti squash.  That was AFTER 2 Radlers!  I was so thirsty from the olive salad on the muffaletta!  Anyway, it was all very tasty!