Natchez, Mississippi the United States acquired this area from the British after the American Revolutionary War, the city served as the capital of the American Mississippi Territory and then of the state of Mississippi. It predates Jackson by more than a century; the latter replaced Natchez as the capital in 1822, as it was more centrally located in the developing state. The strategic location of Natchez, on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, ensured that it would be a pivotal center of trade, commerce, and the interchange of ethnic Native American, European, and African cultures in the region; it held this position
Beatties Bluff, Mississippi Beatties Bluff, Mississippi Beatties Bluff (also Beattie's Bluff) is a ghost town located in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. Once a thriving hamlet on the south shore of the Big Black River, it is today the location of a $32 million wastewater treatment plant. Nothing remains of the original settlement. Beatties Bluff was founded in the early 1800s as an outpost along the Natchez Trace. When Yazoo County was created in 1823, Beatties Bluff was made its first county seat. In 1829, the county seat was moved to Benton. When Madison County was created in 1829, it too named Beatties