Natchez National Historical Park, National Historical Park in Adams County, Mississippi, US

Natchez National Historical Park is a National Park Service unit in Adams County, Mississippi, made up of four separate sites in and around Natchez. Fort Rosalie preserves the site of an 18th-century French fortification, the William Johnson House at 210 State Street preserves the home of a free Black barber and businessman, Melrose is the two-story Greek Revival plantation estate of John T. McMurran about two miles southeast of Fort Rosalie, and Forks of the Road Market marks the slave market site.

The park was authorized on October 7, 1988, and the William Johnson House was added on September 28, 1990. Fort Rosalie preserves an 18th-century French fortification later renamed Fort Panmure and held successively by Britain, Spain and the United States. Melrose was the estate of John T. McMurran, and Forks of the Road opened as a park unit on June 18, 2021.

The William Johnson House shows how a free Black businessman lived and worked, running barbershops and properties before the Civil War. His personal journals reveal the daily routines and social challenges of someone with such an unusual status in that era.

Visitors can explore the sites daily, with information and guided tours available at various locations throughout the park. It is helpful to wear comfortable shoes and plan extra time since the different historic places are spread across a larger area.

The Forks of the Road unit opened to the public in an official ceremony on June 18, 2021, making it the newest of the park's four sites. Between 1832 and 1863 the crossroads hosted the second-largest domestic slave market in the Deep South, after New Orleans.