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	Natchez Trace Parkway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Natchez Trace Parkway is a 444 mile (715 km) long parkway, in the form of a limited-access two-lane road, in the southeastern United States.
		The purpose of the road is to commemorate the original route of the Natchez Trace.
		The history of the Parkway and that of the entire Trace is summarized at the Natchez Trace Visitor Center in Tupelo, Mississippi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway (545 words)

	Natchez Trace and the People
		The Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, a ceremonial mound center in Natchez, is overshadowed by the town’s antebellum district, yet this National Historic Landmark interprets the 500-year-old history and archeology of the Natchez tribe.
		The primary settlements of the Natchez (Nvce) are presently in the southern half of the Mvskoke reservation and the west central part of the Cherokee reservation in Oklahoma, especially near Braggs, Sourjohn Mountain, Natcheztown (Notchietown @ Gore), and Hulbert.
		Natchez families are also to be found among the balance of the Five Civilized Tribes including the Seminole and Chickasaw.
	www.snowwowl.com /peoplenatchez.html (1724 words)

	Magellan's Log: The Natchez Trace
		For a period of about 50 years, the Natchez Trace functioned sort of as the first American "interstate highway," encouraging and easing the movement of people about the country, though it was far from being a highway.
		The northern half of the Natchez Trace was hilly; the southern half nearer the Mississippi River became flat and swampy.
		In spite of such difficulties, the Natchez Trace provided a means of settlement and commerce in the area west of the Appalachians and east of the Mississippi River.
	www.texaschapbookpress.com /sites.htm (2134 words)

	TN State Parks: Natchez Trace State Park
		Natchez Trace is located in Carroll, Henderson, and Benton counties in West Tennessee.
		Natchez Trace State Park was named for the famous Natchez to Nashville highway, an important wilderness road during the early 18th and early 19th centuries.
		Natchez Trace group lodge consists of 4 cottages and one bunkhouse, an administration building/dining hall and wash house.
	www.state.tn.us /environment/parks/NatchezTrace/index.shtml (1518 words)

	Natchez Trace. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Natchez Trace, historic road, in Tenn., Ala., Miss., from Nashville (Tenn.) to Natchez (Miss.), of great commercial and military importance from the 1780s to the 1830s.
		Traveled originally mainly N from Natchez to Nashville; goods were later floated S to New Orleans by flatboat on Cumberland, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers, and boatmen then used the Trace to trek back N. Its general use was replaced with development of steamboats, which could ply the rivers in both directions.
		Andrew Jackson marched over the Trace to New Orleans in the War of 1812.
	www.bartleby.com /69/5/N01205.html (219 words)

	The Regional Review (1939)
		The Natchez Trace lost its importance as a through route; sections of it were abandoned while other parts became neighborhood roads and links between small settlements, as was the case before the white man's coming.
		The significance of the Natchez Trace lay in the political, military and economic importance of the two towns of Natchez and Nashville at the close of the eighteenth century and in the opening years of the nineteenth.
		In the first place this parkway itself is a memorialization of the old Natchez Trace and bears its name although technical standards required for modern traffic do not allow it to follow closely all the crooks and turns and some of the narrow ridges of the old road.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/regional_review/vol2-4d.htm (2656 words)

	Natchez Trace - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		NATCHEZ TRACE [Natchez Trace] road, from Natchez, Miss., to Nashville, Tenn., of great commercial and military importance from the 1780s to the 1830s.
		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.
		Natchez Trace, Old Agency projects taking longer than expected: Jackson bypass should be complete by end of 2004; Stack III project progressing smoothly.(Mississippi Business Journal)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-natchezt1r.html (376 words)

	Natchez Trace Parkway - Natchez Trace Parkway (U.S. National Park Service)
		The 444-mile Natchez Trace Parkway commemorates an ancient trail that connected southern portions of the Mississippi River, through Alabama, to salt licks in today's central Tennessee.
		The heaviest use of the Old Trace was from 1800 to about 1825 by men, known as "Kaintucks," who floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and returned north on foot.
		Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was governor of the Upper Louisiana Territory when he mysteriously died on the Natchez Trace in 1809, at Grinder's Stand in Tennessee.
	www.nps.gov /natr (318 words)

	IMA Hero: Reading Program Natchez Trace
		Natchez was an important town because it was located on the Mississippi River.
		It is a scenic highway from Natchez to Nashville.
		He proposed the Natchez Trace be used as a postal route between the United States and its southwestern frontier.
	www.imahero.com /readingprogram/trailnatchez.html (2804 words)

	USATODAY.com - Historic Natchez Trace Parkway complete after 70 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Old Natchez Trace was a series of paths trampled into the wilderness by American Indians, explorers, settlers and traders.
		Natchez Trace Parkway: A 444-mile parkway, part of the National Parks system, running along a centuries-old route from Natchez, Miss., through the northwest corner of Alabama to Nashville; www.nps.gov/natr/ or (800) 305-7417.
		The Natchez Trace experienced its heaviest use from 1785 to 1820 by the "Kaintuck" boatmen who floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to markets in Natchez and New Orleans.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/destinations/2005-06-06-natchez-trace_x.htm (1147 words)

	Natchez Trace Parkway--Lewis and Clark Expedition: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		The capital of the southern territory was Natchez and it was removed from the nearest outpost, Nashville, by 600 miles of American Indian territory.
		Between 1801 and 1803 the Trace was cleared by Federal troops, and in the War of 1812 the Americans used the Trace returning from the defense of New Orleans in 1815.
		The Natchez Trace ceased to be the main highway leading to the riverport cities of Natchez and New Orleans after the introduction of the steamboat in 1820, when river travel replaced the use of the Old Natchez Trace.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/lewisandclark/nat.htm (788 words)

	Natchez Road, Natchez Trace Map, 1800 - 1830s. TNGenWeb Project, TNGenNet Inc.
		From Natchez northeastward, it was called the “Path to Choctaw Nation,” the middle section through the Choctaw Nation was known as the “Choctaw-Chickasaw Trail, ” the northern most leg of this rude path ran through Chickasaw Nation and to Nashville Tennessee.
		While the Natchez Road never reached into the Territory of Louisiana, it is important to recognize that the United States was moving southwest, and for about thirty years, the Natchez Road played a important part in the development of that southwestern country.
		Today, the original Natchez Trace is a beautiful scenic parkway while the Notchey is in part, country roads, and in part, abandoned.
	www.tngenweb.org /maps/tntrace.htm (1228 words)

	Viki's Little Corner of the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Natchez Indians from whom the town of Natchez takes it's name, if tradition may be believed, came from Mexico where they had lived for centruries; and after the fall of the Montezuma Empire, to which they were allied, they fled from Spanish tryanny.
		The Natchez Trace did not cross Tombigbee River at Cotton Gin Port, but both Gain's Trace and Natchez Trace leaving Colbert's Ferry was for quite a distance one and the same.
		Signs of the old trace are plainly visible from the Colbert house looking south through a pasture and near the place where the plow share has not yet done its full share of destruction.
	www.roark-family.org /History/NatchezTrace.asp (3933 words)

	The Nifty Natchez Trace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Natchez Trace is a four hundred forty-four mile National Park, so to speak.
		Initially, The Trace, as many early roadways were called, was a path beaten down by Native Americans, followed by French and Spanish settlers.
		Natchez weather was so hot and humid that I couldn't put on more clothes to keep the gnats at bay.
	www.miamivalleytrails.org /nifty_natchez_trace.htm (1422 words)

	Natchez Trace Parkway and National Scenic Trail \| GORP
		The Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail lies within the boundaries of the Natchez Trace Parkway, extending for 450 miles from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee.
		The trace was later used by early explorers,"Kaintuck" boatmen, post riders, and military men, including General Andrew Jackson after his victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
		There is currently 62 miles of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail open for use in four areas along the Natchez Trace Parkway.
	www.gorp.com /gorp/resource/us_trail/natchez.htm (653 words)

	Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail - Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail (U.S. National Park Service)
		The Old Natchez Trace was a 500-mile footpath that ran through Choctaw and Chickasaw lands connecting Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee.
		Today there are four separate trails totaling 65 miles and they are administered by the Natchez Trace Parkway.
		The National Trails System Act of 1968 identified the Natchez Trace as one of the initial 14 routes nationwide thought to have potential as a national scenic trail.
	www.nps.gov /natt (389 words)

	The Natchez Trace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Natchez Trace has Indian temple mounds and Indian village sites that existed as long ago as 8000 B.C. Some of these sites were occupied by human beings long before the building of the ancient pyramids of Egypt.
		Emerald Mound, located on the Natchez Trace near Natchez, MS, is the second largest ceremonial earthwork in the U.S. It was built over two centuries before Columbus landed in America, by Native Americans known as Mississippians..
		The Natchez Trace is the story of the people who used it ~ from the Indians who traded and hunted along it, to the "
	library.thinkquest.org /6270/story_index.html (242 words)

	Bicycle club completes Natchez Trace trek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		NATCHEZ — Watching a child learn to ride a bicycle can be frustrating and comical.
		Watching members of the Natchez Bicycle Club glide down the Natchez Trace Parkway, ending their 444-mile trip, was like watching a skillful work of art.
		Her mother is involved in tourism at Rosalie and told her the news of a group that visited the home that was bicycling the trace.
	www.natchezdemocrat.com /articles/2006/06/05/news/news55.txt (638 words)

	Natchez Trace Parkway
		General Andrew Jackson used the Old Trace to march troops from Nashville to the Battle of New Orleans, ensuring defeat of Britain’s plans to occupy the Mississippi River Valley.
		The Old Trace was traveled by many, including Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, “Kaintuck boatmen”, Davy Crockett, Lafayette, Andrew and Rachael Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Aaron Burr, Henry Clay, James Audubon, Meriwether Lewis, and outlaws John Murrell and Samuel Mason.
		The development of the steamboat and the rerouting of portions of the national post road led to the death of the Old Trace as a major transportation corridor.
	www.mdot.state.ms.us /events/natchez_trace.htm (1190 words)

	Natchez Trace Bed & Breakfast Reservation Service - Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi - Bed & Breakfast Inns ...
		Once a pathway in the settlement of the Southeast, the Natchez Trace is now a parkway operated by the National Park Service, running 444 miles from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi, and enjoyed by motorists and cyclists alike.
		"Taking a trip on the Natchez Trace without advance planning can be somewhat difficult, as the Park Service does not permit any advertising, either in the form of signs or in literature at their visitor's centers.
		Whether you are planning two days or ten on the Natchez Trace, we can put together a package of B&Bs for you, at the price of just the B&Bs alone.
	www.bbonline.com /natcheztrace (605 words)

	Natchez Trace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Trace is a two lane road without paved shoulders.
		For a great map of the Natchez Trace, see Adventure Cycling's Routes and Maps section.
		Their Great Rivers South Section 3 map covers most of the Natchez Trace.
	www.bikemississippi.org /Routes/NTrace.htm (105 words)

	Natchez Trace Parkway
		Early hunters, settlers, and soldiers used these traces, the most famous of which was the Natchez Trace connecting Nashville and Natchez, Mississippi.
		During the late 1700s the Natchez Trace became an important thoroughfare for French and Spanish traders and missionaries.
		In 1938, Congress created the Natchez Trace Parkway, which was opened for its entire 442 miles in 1996.
	www.tennesseeanytime.org /homework/historicsites/natctrac.html (208 words)

	Natchez Trace - Southcentral USA
		The Natchez Trace is one of those places that you can go to get away from of it all and I do mean all.
		On the trace, if you let your imagination ramble (or step back in time) you might see de Soto on his way across land to find the Mississippi, boatmen on their return trip hiking back home after selling their goods in Natchez or New Orleans.
		Spring on the Natchez Trace is a wonderland of color from the soft whites of dogwood to soft lavender of wisteria to the soft pinks of wild cherries and mayhaws.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art22629.asp (716 words)

	Amazon.com: The Devil's Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace.: Books: Jonathan, Daniels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The best book on the Natchez Trace, where Meriwether Lewis died, is The Devil's Backbone by Jonathan Daniels (1962).
		The Trace was considered an improved road; tree stumps in the road were required to be cut off shorter than 16 inches.
		Natchez Trace in fact and fiction: A list by Elizabeth Clare "co-author of To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis and Clark"
	www.amazon.com /Devils-Backbone-Story-Natchez-Trace/dp/0070153027 (894 words)

	Natchez Trace Bicycle Tour, Southern Trace Bicyle Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Southern Natchez Trace bicycle tour incorporates the best accommodations and dining that southern Mississippi has to offer.
		Depending on the desires of the group we will either cycle down the Natchez Trace or to shuttle to Vicksburg National Military Park where we will take a private tour of the park, sight of one the most important battles fought in the Civil War.
		Day 5 - Explore Natchez, Ms Today is an optional day for cycling with opportunities to take guided tours of many of the Antebellum Mansions in the city of Natchez.
	www.blackbearadventures.com /southern6d.html (518 words)

	Natchez Trace - Southpoint.com
		An ancient Indian trail, the Natchez Trace Parkway winds slowly across Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee.
		During the period from 1800-1820 the Trace was the busiest road on the southwest frontier.
		This fall, like all of the others on the Trace, is intermittent and may not flow during extremely dry periods.
	www.southpoint.com /states/ms/trace.htm (1094 words)

	Summer drives: Natchez Trace Parkway - May. 15, 2002
		Unlike the Blue Ridge Parkway, whose route was determined by planners and engineers, the Natchez Trace Parkway follows a previously existing route: the old Natchez Trace, a pre-Columbian walking trail that remained an important and heavily traveled pathway until the 1820s, when steamboats made it obsolete.
		Although the NTP parallels the route of the old Trace pathway, the Trace itself is gone -- almost.
		Although the Sunken Trace is just a short walk from the roadway and only about 200 yards long, it feels like another world.
	money.cnn.com /2002/05/15/pf/saving/travel/drives_natcheztrace (864 words)

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