Gloucester

Winthrop Sargent was appointed first governor of the Mississippi Territory in 1798. Gloucester, built in the early 1800s, is one of the earliest substantial houses in Natchez still standing and a National Historic Landmark for its association with the establishment of American government in the territory. The city Sargent governed had been founded as Fort Rosalie in 1716 and renamed for the Natchez people in 1763. By the time American territorial authority arrived, Natchez carried the memory of the 1729 Natchez War — the largest death toll by Indian attack in Mississippi's history, when the Natchez killed 229 French colonists and the French retaliated by killing, enslaving, or scattering most of the Natchez over the next two years. The house remains private, visible from Lower Woodville Road near Longwood, with limited public access. Go for what the landmark designation recognizes: the establishment of American government in this contested territory, made tangible in one of the earliest substantial houses still standing.