Natchez College

Natchez College was a historically Black private educational institution located on North Union Street in Natchez. Natchez Seminary had been founded on this site by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York in 1877, with 20 previously enslaved persons studying to ministers and teachers; the school relocated to Jackson in 1882 and grew to become Jackson State University. Natchez College was then formed in 1884 by an effort of the Baptist State Missionary Convention led by George W. Gayles. The school became a junior college in the 1960s and closed in 1989.