Ellis Cliffs News

In February 1778 the American Revolution arrived at Natchez-three years after it had first broken out in Massachusetts.

At the northern tip of Ellis Cliffs near the old mouth of St. Catherine Creek in the 1790s, a Spaniard traveling down river in a pirogue found deposits of silver.

Men with remarkable backgrounds and remarkable futures came to Natchez during the late 18th century, including Samuel Forman, a 24-year-old New Jersey native who was 11-years-old when the American Revolution broke out.

The men and women who settled Natchez country in the late 1700s traveled here from distant places.

The roar of cannons, the crack of rifles, the clip clop of horsesa hooves, the clash of sabers and the sound of fiddles and banjos will soon be heard at Historic Jefferson College.