Natchez National Cemetery

Coordinates: 31°34′51″N 91°23′42″W / 31.5809702°N 91.3950859°W / 31.5809702; -91.3950859
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Natchez National Cemetery
Postcard of Natchez National Cemetery
MPS
Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
NRHP reference No.99001387
Added to NRHPNovember 22, 1999[1]

Natchez National Cemetery is a

United States National Cemetery located in the city of Natchez overlooking the Mississippi River in Adams County, Mississippi. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
, it encompasses 25.7 acres (10.4 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 7,154 interments.

History

The original site of the cemetery was purchased from local residents in 1866, to inter

levees
of the west bank of the Mississippi River were exhumed and transferred to the National Cemetery.

Natchez National Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Notable interments

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ The Mississippi Encyclopedia

External links

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