View of Natchez from the water tower looking northwest towards Linton Avenue.

View of Natchez from the water tower looking northwest towards Linton Avenue. This image captures the first houses built in the Clifton Heights National Register Historic District. The area was developed on the grounds of, and derives its name from, Clifton, the early nineteenth-century mansion that was destroyed in 1863 during the Union occupation of Natchez. Developed as one of the first corporate subdivisions of the city in the late nineteenth century, the district boundaries follow the 1888 subdivision plat of the area. The primary building period of the district is from 1888-1910, and the majority of the buildings are either Queen Anne or Colonial Revival.