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Natchez Trace road, from Natchez, Miss., to Nashville, Tenn., of great commercial and military importance from the 1780s to the 1830s. It grew from a series of Native American trails used in the 18th cent. by the French, English, and Spanish. At first traveled only N from Natchez to Nashville, because the American frontiersmen could float goods S to New Orleans by flatboat, it came to be used in both directions with U.S. expansion into the Old Southwest. It was made a post road in 1800 and was improved by the army. Andrew Jackson marched over the Trace to New Orleans in the War of 1812. With the coming of steamboat transportation, however, it passed into decline. The Natchez Trace Parkway and Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail memorialize and generally follow the old Natchez Trace. Meriwether Lewis Park and Ackia Battleground (now called Chickasaw Village), both former national monuments, were incorporated into Natchez Trace Parkway in 1961 (see National Parks and Monuments , table).

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Natch·ez / ˈnachiz/ a historic port city on the Mississippi River in southwestern Mississippi; pop. 19,460. The Natchez Trace, which leads from here to Nashville in Tennessee, was a 19th-century route for riverboatmen returning north from trips to New Orleans.

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Magazine article from: American Forests; 1/1/1990; 539 words ; ...jumped in my truck and detoured to Natchez Trace State Park. The detour was a good...that the park is the home of the Natchez Trace Pecan, thought to be 175 years...soldier was walking back along the Natchez Trace and gave the nuts to a woman he... Read more
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Magazine article from: Thrasher; 2/1/2005; 700+ words ; OUT ON THE ALABAMA/TENNESSEE state line where the roads are still dirt and a few miles off the Natchez Trace, you can find the current home of the Pine Hill Haints. For many people there's not a lot to be seen out in this area--mostly trees... Read more
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Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine; 5/1/2002; 322 words ; ...Saver, the pictures play backup to the delightfully serendipitous story. Readers first meet a man driving down the Natchez Trace to his grandson's Little League tournament. When he notices a turtle in the middle of the road, the man can't bear... Read more

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