Exploring Natchez, Mississippi Tour (Mississippi Road Trip, Part 5) 

These guys deserve a larger audience.

Another great vid guys! Just wanted to add a little miscellaneous info-Natchez is the home town of both R&B singer Alexander O'Neal and Olu Dara, a jazz musician and father of the rapper Nas

Admittedly when I first started watching your videos I was only interested in New Orleans however now I am really enjoying exploring other areas of this fascinating state. You guy’s do a great job with your storytelling and humor!

I recently took a road trip from San Antonio, Texas up to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to visit family. After watching this video, I made a point to stop in Natchez on the way. I loved it so much I stayed the night there and stopped there again on the way back to Texas. It’s an amazing town, and I loved learning about it and it’s history from this video! You guys are awesome, please keep the videos coming!

My family is from Natchez & moved to Chicago before I was born. I always loved going down to Natchez & recently I’ve been finding out all of this incredible history of the town. Natchez has such a deep & rich history by native Americans, African slaves and the French. My whole life I thought it was just a small town but Natchez was very important once upon a time.

I worked on a River boat that stopped here very often, never knew any of this. This is so informational! The shells… wow.

This whole series was excellent. I'm sharing it around as much as I can. Y'all are such gifted storytellers. I can't wait for whatever is next.

I have a friend who lives in Natchez and I visited her in 2019 and again in 2024. Thank you for doing these videos!

Hope you do the Native American & Freed slaves history segment. Thanks for doing your wonderful videos.✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻💗💗💗💗

i especially liked Robi's input on this video.

I truly appreciate y'all not sugar coating the fact that it was pretty much chaos and pretty much everyone was taking everyone else as slaves, and that people did fight to be free and to free others. That's just how it was. History is messy and complicated because people are messy and complicated, but we shouldn't hide from it. We should accept that there are no saints here, just people. I wouldn't say "get over it" because that would mean forgetting the price our ancestors paid for us to be where we are, and thus forgetting our duty to those who will come after us. We owe it to our ancestors to honor them and remember them and to live our lives in such a way that they would be proud of us. Maybe that's a southern mindset or maybe a tribal mindset, I don't know, but that's the way I feel about it.

The Camp @ Natchez Under the Hill. So much good food!

I was born at Natchez Charity Hospital. Went to Natchez High School. Most of my family are buried at Greenlawn Cemetary. There is a certain spirit of shame and simultaneously pride for people who are from here. I sense some of that in this video.

I'm really enjoying you Three Amigos! Thank you for the "road trip", I've learned so much.

Y'all need to check out Lafayette and Cajun country and explain the differences between NO and Cajun. THAT would be COOL!

We will be visiting Natchez this summer. This video is fantastic as it will make our journey much more enjoyable to know about all the history we will be experiencing there. 👍👍

The bast cemetery that I saw thank you 🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

You are all wonderful. This is real and not a tourist thing. Thank you. I going to watch more of videos.

Excellent! Loved all the history along the way. Would like to see of small town life along the Mississippi. Thanks for letting us ride along.

I've always wanted to explore Natchez and Vicksburg. This video was very helpful to me. At 27:59 that's a reference to the Pont des Arts in Paris, which is a bridge there people put padlocks onto.

Great road trip that my wife and I did many years ago. We stayed at Landsdowne in Natchez. Had hoped you'd cover some of the "City Plantation Homes" in Natchez. IIRC, the owners had their working plantation across the river and Landsdowne was their city home. I also remember that the home was the most complete with original furnishings in Natchez. The silver was stashed in the backyard cistern so the Northern troops wouldn't find and confiscate it. The couple there were real jewels. Will always love Natchez due to their hospitality

This was so fun!! Thank y’all!!! A Cajun country road trip would be really cool, maybe even going up to north Louisiana and seeing how Louisiana culture shifts throughout the state

Every time I went out of Louisiana, I came back to America. I would like to see you guys tour all along the Mississippi River

We visited Natchez in May 2016 and found the Turning Angel grave marker in the Natchez cemetery. It’s the title of a John Grisham novel and it’s on the book’s dust cover

I’m soooo far behind the times, but just watched the entire road trip playlist today. You three are brilliant tour guides - wish I could afford to tip you. Hell - wish I could afford to visit Louisiana! But thanks to you guys, I feel like I have. Much love, respect and gratitude from Tasmania, Australia. 🙏❤

I was born and raised in Natchez and as a kid, our parents would take us to the Indian mounds and Natchez Trace on a picnic. Mounds were taller and steeper than they are now-at least as kids, they looked taller to us..lol....glad you enjoyed your visit!

If no one has mentioned it, my FAVE fiction author lives in Natchez!! Greg Iles!! His Pen Cage series are my favorite books! Would’ve loved to see his office/AirBnB on this tour! It’s a chalet style house on the river downtown (I’ve never been to Natchez, just love Greg Iles). I knew of Turning Angel, Ft. Rosalie, and Under the Hill from his books set there. Also, please come do Mobile or my beloved hometown of Selma!!!

Thanks guys my home town

Robi - To answer your question: Yes, yes we do. :) Andrew - Any time you start a sentence with "We could do a whole presentation on..." I'm like, "Here comes another video idea!" I love the historical asides. Still excited for the Marie Laveau video. James - Appreciate all you do in front of and behind the camera - including reminding Robi what rating the video should have. LOL!

Natchez is AMAZING! Thank you for sharing it with your viewers!

Great video guys! You did a great job exploring the town of Natchez. Next time you are in the area, you may find Rodney, Ms interesting. It is an old lost town on the Mississippi river with some beautiful landmarks still standing.

Great Video! 😃 I live around Jackson, MS. and grew up in Vicksburg. I’ve always loved Natchez! You just scratched the surface about Natchez! So much more info. to know around Natchez. I do hope you make more videos! All of you are certainly gifted in what you do!

Omg! I just love all of your videos! After working all day for those 12+ hours shift. I come home and watch you all and learns something cool! Thank you!!

Awesome living history lesson and cheers on your successful journey!

I have been on a lot of the Natchez Trace Trail. It is beautiful. There had been some fires through it, but you could tell how beautiful that part had been. Thank you for sharing it with us.

From Cleveland Ohio!!!!! Family is from Louisiana happen to end up here from a grandpa in the army!!! Forever have Louisiana in my heart can’t wait to come back! Y’all are amazing love your history information and energy y’all are the best!

I absolutely enjoyed every single destination! You guys brought education, enlightenment, and humor. I really felt like I was on this trip and I would love to experience another tour/road trip with you guys again. As much as I love New Orleans, I'd love to know/ virtually experience more about Lafayette (Cajun cultute), Baton Rouge, and Shreveport. Thank you guys!

You both really compliment each other in these videos ! Andrew & Robi !!!!

I love your videos! Please keep them coming. I'm thinking of visiting new Orleans in January 2023. From Sydney, Australia

I love the outtakes!!

Ya'll are a lot of fun and smart too. This has been a great series , learned a lot. THANKS

Here’s a little tip about all the Spanish moss that I’ve seen on the road trip, don’t get a little bit of it so you can take it home to Kentucky to show your family, It’s full of little bugs that infested my car on the way back! Lol, that was a professional car detail that I never planned on! Lol, live and learn. Oh, and by the way, Robi needs to wear more blue, that color looks so good on him! Stay safe guys and thanks for the tour.

Very interesting storytelling, which makes it a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for this. 👍

I did a 4 day trail ride on horseback on the Natchez Trace Trail when I was a kid. Totally awesome experience. Part of my life long love affair with history.

Always great videos. Thx from Brooklyn.

my family is from natchez, that angel is called the turning angel. people have seen her turn as they drive by

THANKS guys!! Awesome fun, laughs and informative... more more more please!! 💙💙💙

I particularly like the idea of trips to smaller towns that would not be on the radar of most people. We learn about more interesting places to visit, and the small towns get the added tourism.

There a little road north of the Natchez Cemetery where the Turning Angel is, that takes you by the Devil's Punch Bowl, a cove where pirates used to hide to rob Keel Boats going north.. The road will take you to Pine Ridge Road, which goes to Anna's Bottom....worth a look see...

The collaborative tour guid experience is awesome! Robbie, great history lesson, thank you!

Really enjoy your videos! Y'all are so much fun to watch, and thank you for all the interesting history. 😊❤

😂😂 I wanna be y’all’s friend so much. That ending was a RIOT 🤣🤣

Came across your tours by accident and thoroughly enjoyed every bit. Thank you.

so much fun enjoyed all of this history.

You guys are great! I'm planning a trip to Mississippi to visit a friend and look forward to seeing the sites and history!

Well done! Great photography and composition. Great dialogue with great research. Pleasure to view and to be informed.

I absolutely love your channel and love this road trip!

Loved this series. Live across the river in Vidalia. Natchez loves calling themselves The Little Easy, they would be quite proud of the comparison yall gave of them to New Orleans!

Nice beautiful home 🏡 love them

You guys are great. We're thinking of retiring to Natchez. You intensified our appetites.

This entire trip was excellent from start to finish. Totally enjoyable and relatable. Cheers to a job WELL DONE!

Enjoyed exploring with you guys.

Great tour..Thank you.

Fascinating explanations. European here; will visit Louisiana in November. Hope I can find tourguides like you.

Great video, very informative. Thanks for sharing!

OMG i just found this channel I loveeeee it.

My grandaddy and all of his family was born in Natchez.

Thank you for the living history class. Thank you.

This was a great road trip, my fav was St. Francisville. Also Grand Coteau is a cool little town with some cool history. Thx Y'all!

Loved this series. More please

Great series guys!!!

HELL YEAH MORE ROAD TRIPS!!!!!🙌🎯💯🏆😍🤸👍🍻🚗🥇🥂🍾👣

I love your videos. Please do Mobile, AL.

"Each plantation had a theme." Let that sink in. Great information, thanks so much. Also, usually only slaves and the poor went to hospitals. As the wealthy and powerful, were cared for "at home".

Love love love please do more thank you

That was very interesting. Thank you

This is great!

I really enjoyed this series so much. I would love to see you guys tour my part of Louisiana ( Avery Island/ New Iberia) area. keep up the amazing work.

Fun & interesting. Loved the hidden things & other details you incorporated in the video - I just stumbled across you guys. Peaks my interest & y’all are much better than a lot of other videos. I’ve been to Vicksburg way back when I was 15. Lol. I don’t think we explored much of Natchez though unfortunately Definitely DIG the river & sites there. Very cool!

Hello everybody Andrew, Robi, and James are headed to Natchez Mississippi, the oldest town on the Mississippi. WATCH THE. You need to come to Natchez, Ms. for the ballon race in Oct. around 16-22

All Very interesting. Thank you for sharing this history of slavery.

Love your videos. You looked a little too excited to go to the under the hill area

I so loved the details but kept it entertaining. I would greatly appreciate if you would consider doing a walking tour of Breaux Bridge and St.Martinville,LA. thanks.

A lot when on sad but we are here thur our peoples thank you lord

Saw Robbie in Ghost Adventures last week... teeehehe... Great job - but yeah - we all have those moments in our careers.... LOL! THANK YOU for these videos! New to Baton Rouge and you've taught me SO much!!!! I am not a good walker these days, but I'll have to find a way to show my appreciation. If good wishes are payment, you have a million smiles coming your way.

We love Natchez and have another trip planned this May. We would have loved more details on restaurants etc. thanks Snead Al.

Thank you Enjoyed this piece of natchez😘

you guys -- that was awesome. We'll be there in a few weeks and you made me happy. and sad, of course. history is complicated.

After watching this video.. I am subscribing.

I grew up in Ferriday Louisiana across the river. Y’all should have gone over to Vidalia across the bridge and gone to Jo Jo’s where you can drive through a bar and buy liquor and a large array of mixed drinks. It is a hoot, only in Louisiana!

Cool place

I love ❤️ you guys.

Up on the other end of the Natchez Trace Trail in TN, there is a town called Hohenwald that has one the largest elephant sanctuaries in the country. It used to be open to the public but isnt anymore - but they might let you in for a short documentary. Researching how animals were treated in hundreds of old circuses and where they ended up or how they were put down is a fascinating, but horrible, area of study. There is a town in TN called Erwin on I-26 above Asheville that used to advertise they were the home of The Hanging Elephant as they shot and hung an elephant because it ran across a field, starving, and killed a man trying to get watermelons. Actually it was the fill-in trainer who stabbed the elephant with a spike and Mary, the elephant in a circus for 26 yrs, stomped him. They hurried her to the train and she got away from Kingsport to Erwin, but the sheriff in Erwin was ordered to kill her, and what ensued from that point was horrible. No one has researched this story like I have and in 25 years, not even locals in Erwin know the real truth. Ive done years of research on what happened to several elephants who got lose and accidentally killed someone. Thomas Edison was once called in to electrocute one. I guess I only bring this up because it is what is on the OTHER END of the Natchez trail, the elephant sanctuary in Hohenwald. They are constantly seeking donations to raise funds to feed the elephants who were horribly abused in circuses long ago. Plus, I ride motorcycles and it is a very cool area to ride in. Im in East Tn but Im looking to move to the Natchez area soon. There is alot more the The Natchez Trace Trail, the Trail of 1000 tears, than meets the eye.

Hey guys, thanks for the trip!

Excellent ♥️

I did indeed love this for heart road trip. Here in Waco Texas we have a suspension bridge across the Brazos River that people also put padlocks on which is not good for the bridge and I know that here in Waco city services go out once you're cut them all off.

Reminds me of the Fairy Forts in Ireland.

Can you guys do a video on the devils punch bowl

I was born in Natchez in 1948 but live there very long, my daddy was a rambler, lol. I was raised in Texas and live in Alabama now. I'm 75 & so interested in finding out about where I was born. I was born in the hospital because I was very premature. My mother didn't always go to hospitals due to money, no insurance of course. Kind of an interesting birth because my mother didn't know she was carrying twins & her first idea was when she went into labor it was way to early but she did deliver a baby which was tiny & if they knew the sex they didn't tell her. The doctor, don't have a name yet wanted to do a D & C but she told him no she still had a baby in her womb but he told her it wasn't possible to lose a baby & continue to carry another. There were no modern ways of knowing anything like that. She went home refused the procedure. A month later she went back & sure enough she had me. I was a blue baby, too early to live. No NICU's for me. According to mother's version the doctor just told the nurse I wasn't going to make it, my lungs weren't developed enough. Well the nurse kept rubbing me doing anything to get me to live & finally she heard the weakest litttle sound & told the doctor I was going to make it, God had his hand on me. I'm 75 now, have continued all my life to have problems breathing. I have asthma & prone to pneumonia but she was right, God has always had his hand on me. My mom died in 1962 so I have no one to ask questions about my birth. So as soon as we can me & my husband are going to do a little trip to Natchez just to see if I can find out about the city of my birth. Any info would help me to get answers once we get there. Thanks y'all.

I loved these videos and the history. I learned a lot from Robi. Did you know Meriwether Lewis is buried south of Nashville on the Natchez Trace.? Thank you for sharing all your knowledge.