Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Natchez, MS

Natchez is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, standing on a bluff above the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisiana.

The 2020 census counted 14,520 people in Natchez, with 6,028 households; the city was Mississippi's 28th-largest city at that census.

Natchez was founded by French colonists in 1716 as Fort Rosalie, making it one of the oldest and most important European settlements in the lower Mississippi River Valley, and it was incorporated on March 10, 1803.

Natchez served as the first capital of the Mississippi Territory from 1798 until 1802, before the capital moved to Jackson in 1822.

Natchez was the southern terminus of the historic Natchez Trace, the overland route to Nashville, Tennessee, and the modern Natchez Trace Parkway still ends in Natchez.

In the antebellum years Natchez was a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade, and many of the mansions built by planters before 1860 survive and form a major part of the city's architecture.

During the Civil War, Natchez was surrendered by Confederate forces without a fight in September 1862, which spared it the destruction visited on many other Southern cities.

Natchez was struck by a devastating tornado in 1840 that killed 317 people, ranking today as the second-deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

Natchez National Historical Park preserves the city's story, including the Melrose estate, the William Johnson House, and Forks of the Road, once the second-largest slave market in the Deep South.

From 1870 to 1871 Robert H. Wood served as mayor of Natchez, one of the first Black mayors in the country during Reconstruction.