In this video, we drive through the area along the Mississippi River -- below the bluffs in Natchez, Mississippi, -- known as "Under-the-Hill." It's a tourist area now, with a handful of restaurants and bars, but it was the original townsite of Natchez in the early 1700s. There were about 20 structures here at the time. This is where the riverboat landing was located, and it quickly became a dangerous, seedy place -- hosting river pirates, gamblers, highwaymen, and prostitutes. It was said that "the only thing cheaper than a woman's body was a man's life."
The town spread to the top of the bluffs in the 1730s when the French built Fort Rosalie. There's a beautiful park there now and the Fort Rosalie site still exists.
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