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Creation Date
1-21-2026
Description
The natural travel corridor that became the Natchez Trace dates back thousands of years bisecting the traditional homelands of the Natchez, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations. Now honored as a designed landscape, the Natchez Trace is the only National Parkway to commemorate an ancient travel route. As the United States extended westward in the late 1700s and early 1800s, travelers tramped the rough trail into a clearly marked path. Where the ground was relatively soft, walkers, riders, and wagons wore down the "sunken" sections you see today. In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson designated the Trace a national post road for mail delivery between Nashville and Natchez.
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