Dr. John W. Monette

Monette did his writing a few steps from his patients. At Sweet Auburn in Washington he put up two one-story brick buildings in front of the house: one was his medical office, the other a library where he wrote his histories and medical papers. He served as mayor, councilman and Jefferson College trustee. Of ten children, only four reached adulthood, and the 1825 epidemic, his first year in practice, killed sixty Washington residents. A cotton planter with two Louisiana plantations and a land speculator, he earned the leisure that paid for the books.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Emerald Mound — 5.0 mi
  The second-largest Mississippian ceremonial mound in the country, beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, built by ancestors of the Natchez and kept from climbing at the request of tribes.
• Forks of the Road — 5.2 mi
  The 1832-1863 slave market a mile east of downtown Natchez, the second busiest in the Deep South, now a Natchez National Historical Park site with exhibit panels.
• Melrose Estate — 5.5 mi
  A Greek Revival estate in Natchez, now a National Park Service site, interpreted through the people who were enslaved there as well as the McMurran family.
• Grand Village of the Natchez Indians — 6.0 mi
  The Natchez capital on St. Catherine Creek, where the Great Sun lived, with two mounds rebuilt to the shape the French recorded in 1723.

More markers nearby

• Washington — steps away
• Prince Ibrahima — steps away
• St. Catherine Creek Italian Colony — 3.1 mi
• Richard Wright — 5.4 mi