RECIPIENTS OF 2026 HISTORIC PRESERVATION AWARD
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James F. Barnett Jr.
Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-Clifford M. Boxley
Dr. Thomas H. Gandy (posthumously)
The Reverend Doctor Joan Warren Gandy
The MacNeil Family
(Grace M.S. McKittrick MacNeil (posthumously) and
daughters Elizabeth “Beth” C. MacNeil Boggess, Ph.D. and
Anne W.S. MacNeil)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Adam T. Erby
Lydia Mattice Brandt, Ph.D.
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James F. Barnett Jr.
Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-Clifford M. Boxley
Dr. Thomas H. Gandy (posthumously)
The Reverend Doctor Joan Warren Gandy
The MacNeil Family
(Grace M.S. McKittrick MacNeil (posthumously) and
daughters Elizabeth “Beth” C. MacNeil Boggess, Ph.D. and
Anne W.S. MacNeil)
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Adam T. Erby
Lydia Mattice Brandt, Ph.D.
PAST RECIPIENTS
2025 Lance S. Harris
2024 Smokye Joe Frank
2023 Stanley Nelson
2021 Duncan Morgan
2019 Historic Natchez Foundation (at 50 years of service)
2018 Dr. Mary Eidt
2016 Burnley Cook
2013 Randy and Helen Smith
2008 Sallie Ballard
2003 Bill Huffpauir
2002 Jean Simonton and Dorothy Sojourner
2001 National Park Service
1999 Don Estes
1998 Teri Tillman
1997 Betty McGehee
1996 Mimi Miller
1995 Alma Carpenter
1994 Carolyn Vance Smith
1993 Mr. and Mrs. Roger Smith (Coyle House)
1992 Marion Smith
1991 Auburn Garden Club
1988 Ed Killian
1986 Robert Shumway
1985 D. A. Biglane
1984 A. Hays Town