Nov 16  An Intellectual in the New State
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-11-16

Charlie Vess presents today's Natchez History Minute about B. L. C. Wailes who died on this day, Nov. 16 in 1862. Described as an intellectual, Wailes conducted the field work and published the first geological survey of the state and was instrumental in founding the Mississippi Historical Society.