historic natchez cemetery

During the month of Nov. they hold the annual Angels on Bluff in the Natchez City Cemetery that is a extremely popular event, only for 1 weekend. It sells out quickly when tickets go on sale, I think around August.

you feel moved as you wander thru the grounds.there are so many unknown soldiers who were not identified in protecting our country. so sad.

Although well maintained and apparently no restrictions to get around the cemetary, there was no guide or map that we could find to help navigate around or find interesting graves. The roads in the cemetary are very narrow with tight turns - fortunately our Nissan Maxima managed OK, but we don't know how we would have gotten around in if we would have been in our Suburban.

Impressive view of the many military graves of those that had fought for our freedom. A good reminder to all.

Beautifully maintained cemetery that is well worth walking through. A visitors guide would have been very beneficial!

Ben Franklin supposedly said "Show me your cemeteries and I'll show you what type of people you have". If that's true, the people of Natchez must have been very caring and respectful over the past two centuries. This is a beautiful and well maintained cometary that is well worth parking and walking.

This cemetery headstone was used in a fiction book where the story is based in Natchez. Ilse is the author (can't remember first name). It was a little spooky because we went at dusk.

Even if you're pressed for time, make room for a drive through this historic cemetery. People have said it's beautiful. I'd say it's kinda mysterious and creepy, in that southern bayou, sort of way. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has nothing over this place. I was most moved by the section dedicated to confederate veterans of the civil war, especially the many markers for unknown soldiers. A national park ranger later told me that for every grave marker you see, there are 4-5 times as many dead buried in the paupers' grave in the back, due to fact that black slaves, who vastly outnumbered whites in the old days, were placed there. Wish we had seen that.

Odd to say but enjoyed walking around here. Well maintained and good for history buffs with lots of interesting gravestones.

I love this place. Even when I was a kid I remember riding through the cemetery with my mom looking at the ornate wrought iron fences and detailed headstones. My mos said that when she was a kid my grandmother would bring her and my uncles there and spend all day, even packing a picnic lunch. It's just that kind of place and is, well, beautiful. You can find a place to park and spend all day walking around or enjoy it from the comfort of your air conditioned car in the summer. It is a must see if you visit Natchez.

Very large cemetery. Drove through it just to see the old and unique grave markers. Followed the narrow roads winding through it.

I love to drive through and see the CSA unknown soldiers' grave markers. It is also awe inspiring to believe so many of these grave sites are hundreds of years old. We saw stones where whole families died within two to three years of each other,. To think the stones are still readable and in such good condition this much later is hard to believe. History is a wonderful thing.

very interesting cemetery. not easy to locate - all the way on the outside of the city. a short drive from downtown. do visit.

In this cemetery you can see the difference in headstones and famous Southerners from the early seventeenth century through today. The mausoleums, intricate headstones hand carved in Europe centuries ago show craftsmanship unavailable today.It is a historians dream!

If you have the time to go you should, but get the cd so you know what you are looking at. We didn't know about it until afterwards and it would have been helpful. We did however enjoy ourselves.