Sometimes the character of a place is so apparent that one can help but feel the stories that formed it. Natchez, Mississippi is one of those places. History has always brought conflicted, complicated characters to this city on the bluffs, and it seems that those characters and the spaces that he inhabited are still around. Natchez held on tight to its history, and today, legends abound. Join us this week as we discuss the southern character itself, focusing on stories from this sleepy Mississippi town: from the haunting of King’s Tavern, to the town’s ties to the infamous Harpe Brothers; from the trial of Aaron Burr, to murder at Goat Castle.
King’s Tavern In Mississippi Has A Haunting Past
GHOSTS OF NATCHEZ – Ghosts on the Prairie
Mississippi Society of Paranormal Investigators
The King’s Tavern: A Haunted History of Cruelty, Anguish and Sorrow
Natchez Area Paranormal Society
Haunted Mississippi: Looking for Spirits at King’s Tavern in Natchez
The Haunted Natchez Trace By Bud Steed
King’s Tavern in Natchez, Mississippi; National Trust for Historic Preservation
Mississippi Current Cookbook: A Culinary Journey down America’s Greatest River By Regina Charboneau, Harriet Bell
The Natchez District and the American Revolution By Robert V. Haynes
The outlaws of Cave-in-Rock : historical accounts of the famous highwaymen and river pirates who operated in pioneer days upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and over the old Natchez trace by Rothert, Otto Arthur
Aaron Burr in Mississippi Thomas Perkins Abernethy The Journal of Southern History Vol. 15, No. 1 (Feb., 1949)
Natchez- Mississippi’s Most Haunted Town
THE OUTLAW YEARS by ROBERT M.COATES – The History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace
Lost Mansions of Mississippi By Mary Carol Miller
The Natchez Trace Indian Trail to Parkway Dawson A. Phelps Tennessee Historical Quarterly Vol. 21, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER, 1962)
Trace of Spirits – Deep South Magazine
Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears – Smithsonian
End of the Road – Smithsonian
Legends of the war of independence : and of the earlier settlements in the West by Thomas Marshall)
Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South by Karen L Cox
Longwood Plantation – Civil War Buff
Longwood Mansion in Natchez, Mississippi: A story of a broken dream – Abandoned Spaces
“Fata Morgana”: A Vision of Empire–the Burr Conspiracy in Mississippi Territory and the Great Southwest–Natchez Love Story of Ex-Vice President Aaron Burr : a Historical Novel – Elizabeth Brandon Stanton
Finding Emily A Story of Historical Recovery
“The Goat Castle Murder” – The Writers Porch
Episode 126: Southern Gothic AF: Ghosts of Natchez Sometimes the character of a place is so apparent that one can help but feel the stories that formed it.
