We spent one week traveling the Natchez Trace.  We spent our second night in Natchez, Mississippi.  Our hotel overlooked the Mississippi river with the bridge close by.  It was beautiful at night when all the lights on the bridge lit up the sky.  One of the first places we stopped was Elizabeth Female Academy which was in operation from 1818-1845.  I tried to imagine what it would have been like to send a daughter out to a school in the middle of nowhere.  I just couldn't imagine how terrifying that would be for both parents and daughter.  The next thing we saw was the Emerald Mound.  It was massive in size.  It is 2.5 by 1.5 football fields and 35 feet high.  It was built by the ancestors of the Natchez from 1250-1600.  It was very impressive.  We saw one of the first hostels at Mount Locust located along the Natchez Trace trail which was established in 1820.  It is one of the oldest buildings in Mississippi, dating to 1780.  As we were driving into this area we passed 20 or so model A's---they were each different in color and fun to look at.  This area also had Civil War people camping out and Dave was shown how to throw an ax into a tree which he did on his second try which he was proud of.  This area also had a slave cemetery which I went to look at and on the way there some little ants found my foot   to bite.  I went from sandals to tennis shoes quickly as these ant hills were everywhere!  Will continue later.