Natchez Trace
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LD0_twentymile-bottom_Baldwyn-MS.html
Twentymile Bottom, now cultivated, was typical of the many low areas along streams through which the Natchez Trace passed.
In 1812 Reverend John Johnson stopped at Old Factors Stand, near this bottom, and wrote this account of bottomland travel:
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LD1_donivan-slough_Marietta-MS.html
This woodland trail takes you through a lowland where rich soil and abundant moisture support a variety of large, water-tolerant trees including tulip poplar, sycamore, and water oak.
Baldcypress thrive in the swampy backwaters of a "slue&qu…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LDH_d-a-r-monument-of-natchez-trace-through-mississippi_Tupelo-MS.html
This monument marks a stage in the course of the Natchez Trace through Mississippi. Over this first high-road came a tide of the best population of the older Southern states seeking homes in the Southwest. After the Treaty of Pontotoc, Oct. 20, 1832, betwee…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LDI_old-town-creek_Tupelo-MS.html
In the early 1800's ordinary Americans could not be bothered with learning the names of Chickasaw villages on the Natchez Trace. One they called Old Town, and passed the name on to the stream running through this valley. It is one of the sources of the Tomb…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LE4_chickasaw-village-site_Tupelo-MS.html
(Marker #1)
A Chickasaw Village
Here once stood an Indian village of several houses and a fort.
Summer House
During the summer they lived in rectangular well-ventilated houses.
Winter House
In the winter they lived in round houses with plastered…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LEJ_chickasaw-agency_New-Houlka-MS.html
The United States agents to the Chickasaws lived from 1802 to 1825 west of here on the Old Natchez Trace.
That Americans could peacefully travel the road through Indian lands was due in large measure to the agents. Their efforts to preserve harmo…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LEK_hernando-de-soto_New-Houlka-MS.html
Somewhere in this vicinity, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto crossed the animal paths that later became the Natchez Trace. In 1539, he set out on a long arduous journey that took him across the Southeastern United States. He crossed the Tombigbee River…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LEM_monroe-mission-station_New-Houlka-MS.html
At Monroe Mission Station northwest of here, the Chickasaws first received Christianity and education in 1822. Five years later, 100 acres were under cultivation and 81 pupils were attending the school. Boys learned farming and carpentry, and girls learned …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LEN_tockshish_Shannon-MS.html
Named for a Chickasaw word meaning "tree root," Tockshish was a community of Indians and white men on the Natchez Trace to the northwest. John McIntosh, British agent to the Choctaws, first settled there before 1770.
In 1801, McIntosh's…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1LEO_chickasaw-council-house_Shannon-MS.html
Westerly on the Natchez Trace stood an Indian village "Pontatock" with its council house which, in the 1820's, became the "Capitol" of the Chickasaw Nation.
The chiefs and headmen met there to sign treaties or to establish tri…