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The Emerald Mound Site, also known as the Sellerstown site, is a Plaquemine culture Mississippian period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi, United States. The site dates from the period between 1200 and 1730 CE. It is the type site for the Emerald Phase (1500 to 1680 CE) of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology and was still in use by the later historic Natchez people for their main ceremonial center. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the country, after Monk's Mound at Cahokia, Illinois
The mound covers eight acres, measuring 770 feet (230 m) by 435 feet (133 m) at the base and is 35 feet (11 m) in height. Emerald Mound has a flat top with two smaller secondary mounds at each end. It was constructed around a natural hill. Travelers in the early 19th century noted a number of adjoining mounds and an encircling ditch that are no longer present.This site once had six other secondary mounds which were lost due to the plowing of the surface of the mound. Emerald Mound was stabilized by the National Park Service in 1955. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
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The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail.
Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than 50 access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.
The All-American Road is maintained by the National Park Service, to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
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Natchez Trace Parkway - My 127th National Park Service Unit visited. Being the historic old roads nerd that I am, we found an original section of the Old Natchez Trace to hike with Thursday This section of the old Native American trail was cleared by the Army in 1801-02 with the “consent” of the Chickasaw Nation.
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail.
Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than 50 access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.
The All-American Road is maintained by the National Park Service, to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway
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Natchez Trace Parkway - My 127th National Park Service Unit visited. Being the historic old roads nerd that I am, we found an original section of the Old Natchez Trace to hike with Thursday This section of the old Native American trail was cleared by the Army in 1801-02 with the “consent” of the Chickasaw Nation.
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail.
Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than 50 access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.
The All-American Road is maintained by the National Park Service, to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
Preserved here is a portion of the deeply eroded or 'sunken' Old Trace. Hardships of journeying on the Old Trace included heat, mosquitos, poor food, hard beds (if any), disease, swollen rivers, and sucking swamps. Take five minutes to walk this sunken trail and let your imagination carry you back to the early 1800s when people walking 500 miles had to put up with these discomforts and where a broken leg or arm could spell death for the lone traveler.
- www.natcheztracetravel.com/natchez-trace-mississippi/vick...
Bummed that the intrepretive sign is gone:
Photographed on 96 near the Natchez Trace Bridge. This photo was also featured on the www.nashvillest.com blog!
The Emerald Mound Site, also known as the Sellerstown site, is a Plaquemine culture Mississippian period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi, United States. The site dates from the period between 1200 and 1730 CE. It is the type site for the Emerald Phase (1500 to 1680 CE) of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology and was still in use by the later historic Natchez people for their main ceremonial center. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the country, after Monk's Mound at Cahokia, Illinois
The mound covers eight acres, measuring 770 feet (230 m) by 435 feet (133 m) at the base and is 35 feet (11 m) in height. Emerald Mound has a flat top with two smaller secondary mounds at each end. It was constructed around a natural hill. Travelers in the early 19th century noted a number of adjoining mounds and an encircling ditch that are no longer present.This site once had six other secondary mounds which were lost due to the plowing of the surface of the mound. Emerald Mound was stabilized by the National Park Service in 1955. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Mound
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail.
Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than 50 access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.
The All-American Road is maintained by the National Park Service, to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
The Emerald Mound Site, also known as the Sellerstown site, is a Plaquemine culture Mississippian period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi, United States. The site dates from the period between 1200 and 1730 CE. It is the type site for the Emerald Phase (1500 to 1680 CE) of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology and was still in use by the later historic Natchez people for their main ceremonial center. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the country, after Monk's Mound at Cahokia, Illinois
The mound covers eight acres, measuring 770 feet (230 m) by 435 feet (133 m) at the base and is 35 feet (11 m) in height. Emerald Mound has a flat top with two smaller secondary mounds at each end. It was constructed around a natural hill. Travelers in the early 19th century noted a number of adjoining mounds and an encircling ditch that are no longer present.This site once had six other secondary mounds which were lost due to the plowing of the surface of the mound. Emerald Mound was stabilized by the National Park Service in 1955. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Mound
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail.
Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than 50 access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.
The All-American Road is maintained by the National Park Service, to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail.
Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than 50 access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.
The All-American Road is maintained by the National Park Service, to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail.
Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than 50 access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.
The All-American Road is maintained by the National Park Service, to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail.
Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than 50 access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.
The All-American Road is maintained by the National Park Service, to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
Rocky Springs along the Natchez Trace in Mississippi on a spring Sunday morning in 1970. The water is mostly spring fed and was cool and refreshing. This was scanned from the original 2-1/4 x 2-3/4 inch negative.
Shot with the SLR Magic 8mm lens on f4
I felt safe being there during the day, but after dark you couldn't pay me to hang out there. I don't believe in ghosts or other supernatural forces, but there's a limit on creapy-ness that I'm willing to accept.
These houses are across RT-145 behind the Natchez Trace Visitors Center in Tupelo. There's no sign of vagrants, dope heads or graffiti. Most all of the houses are open and weatherbeaten but not vandalized. They were part of the Tupelo Homesteads project during the Great Depression.
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This is the view from the top of the Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge in Leiper's Fork, TN (outside of Nashville). This bridge is an arched span that rises 144 feet (!) above Hwy. 96... It is absolutely stunning- it took my breath away the first time I saw it!
This view over the valley farmland is pretty unforgettable... and just soooooo quintessentially "Tennessee". :)
Marker:
“This plainly visible, though long deserted road is a section of the Natchez Trace, evolved from buffalo and Indian trails, into the first national highway of the south-west, cut and opened under authority of the United States Government, after treaties negotiated with the Chickasaw and the Choctaw Indians, in 1801."
"Designed to meet early necessities of trade between Nashville and the Country of the Lower Mississippi, it is an abiding footprint of the bold, crude commerce of the pioneers; yet it is not without military significance in the history of our country. Over it passed a part of Andrew Jackson’s army in his campaign against the Creek Indians in 1813, and again on his return from the battle field of New Orleans in 1815."
"But, before Talledega and New Orleans – before the soldiers of Jackson had given renown to the Natchez Trace, it received its immortal touch of melancholy fame when Meriwether Lewis, journeying over it on his way to Philadelphia, to edit the story of his great expedition, here met his untimely death on the night of Oct. 11, 1809.”
• Capt. Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) was Thomas Jefferson's personal secretary • reputation as a "dandy" who always wore the latest fashions • shortly after Louisiana Purchase, chosen by Jefferson to explore the unclaimed northwest in search of all-water connection between the Missouri River & Pacific Ocean
• led by Lewis & close friend, Second Lt. William Clark (1770-1838), the Corps of Discovery, aka Lewis & Clark Expedition, departed St. Louis, 14 May, 1804 • 2.3 yr. expedition failed to find waterway to Pacific but delivered important geographical, cultural & biological information • expedition largely forgotten until historians rediscovered it around the turn of the 20th century
• Jefferson rewarded Lewis with governorship of Upper Louisiana Territory • administered from its capital, St. Louis • War Department of newly elected president James Madison refused to pay bills Lewis submitted for reimbursement, leaving him personally liable • determined to defend the expenses, Lewis set out for Washington
• route included a leg on the Natchez Trace where he spent a night at Grinder's Stand • early the next morning, 11 Oct, 1809, Lewis died of gunshot wounds • known to have bipolar disorder • existing evidence suggests wounds self-inflicted (a view shared by Thomas Jefferson & Wm. Clark) • some accounts, however, indicate he may have been murdered (believed by his family) • Meriwether Lewis' Mysterious Death -Smithsonian
• buried w/out ceremony near inn's stable • site abandoned & overgrown until 1920s • declared national monument by Pres. Calvin Coolidge, 1925 • State of Tennessee erected memorial, 1848 • broken shaft above the stone base symbolizes a life cut short • Latin inscription: "Immaturus obi; sed tu felicior annos vive meos: Bona Republica! vive tuos." "I died before my time, but thou O great and good Republic, live out my years while you live out your own."
• National Geographic • Lewis & Clark's Historic Trail • Discovering Lewis & Clark • PBS • Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
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Windsor was built in 1861 by Smith Coffee Daniell II, who died just weeks after its completion. The mansion survived the Civil War only to be destroyed by accidental fire in 1890.
This tiny little town in western Williamson County is something of a tourist spot. The Natchez Trace Parkway has an exit into this town, as the original Natchez Trace passed through here.
How can you miss the General Lee? It is parked in front of what is perhaps the town's most famous business, Puckett's Grocery. The store which opened in the 50's is a small market, restuarant and evening live music venue.
The Natchez Trace Parkway meanders through beautiful Southern countryside from Biloxi, MS, to Nashville, TN. This photo was snapped about 25 miles south of Nashville. I was trying to get a picture of a wild turkey, but he ran away. As a consolation prize, Cindy and I thought the road looked beautiful here and I got this photo.
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail.
Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than 50 access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.
The All-American Road is maintained by the National Park Service, to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...