Washington

Washington sits on loess bluffs beside St. Catherine Creek in southwest Mississippi, United States, where rolling, wooded uplands descend toward the Mississippi River floodplain. Known as Historic Washington, the community preserves Jefferson College, founded in 1802 as the first institution of higher learning in the Mississippi Territory. It also hosted the 1817 convention in which delegates framed Mississippi’s first state constitution, giving this small settlement an outsized place in the state’s early political story. Browse additional webcams nearby to see how Washington and the Natchez area connect with the surrounding creek country and Mississippi River lowlands.

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