BGuthrie Photos: MS -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 204.0-ish -- Wayside 155

MS -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 204.0-ish -- Wayside 155:

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1. NT2040_170605_05.JPG: 10,000 Years of History: The Natchez Trace Parkway is a gift waiting to be enjoyed. The highway's graceful curves and lower speeds slow down the pace of daily life. A sense of discovery replaced everyday concerns. Up ahead, around that bend, nestled in the Parkway's tunnels of trees are dozens of scenes from 10,000 years of history. Take time to stop and explore. Rediscover the past. Accept this gift, and meet the people and cultures forever linked to the Natchez Trace. Trails to Trace: The Natchez Trace Parkway is the last of many names given to one of North America's most historic transportation corridors. Each name suggests who traveled this ancient, braided ribbon of trails first created by animals. Some called portions the Chickasaw Trail or the Path to the Choctaw Nation. In the early 1800s, it became the Boatmen's Trail and the Mail Room. WHen trade and travel shifted to river steamboats, sections of the Trace became local roads while others faded into the natural landscape. Trace to Parkway: It was local residents who kept the history of Natchez Trace alive. In the 1930s, their interest in preserving the legacy of the Trace captured the attention of Congress. First, the federal government approved a survey of the meandering path. Then, in 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the law creating the Natchez Trace Parkway. Completed in 2005, the Parkway is the latest chapter in centuries old stories of trade, travel, and homeland. Preserved by the National Park Service, those stories live on. Discover them for yourself.
2. NT2040_170605_10.JPG: Connect Past and Present: A journey along the Parkway is more than a trip from one place to another. Attentive travelers will find enduring links between past and present. The park website, brochures, and the visitor center in Tupelo can help you tailor your visit to your interests and available time. There are campgrounds, picnic areas, and miles of trails. One short trail leads to the graves of 13 Confederate soldiers, their names lost but their sacrifice remembered. Another trail leads uphill to one of the highest points on the Parkway, with vistas overlooking the forests and farms that still define rural Mississippi. The earth mounds along the Natchez Trace, thousands of years old, remain culturally and historically significant to modern Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw. They are protected by federal law. Please respect them.
3. NT2040_170605_19.JPG: Champions of the Trace: In the early 1900s, a group of women mounted a long, sophisticated, yet homespun campaign to create the Natchez Trace Parkway. They focused on two goals: to memorialize the Natchez Trace and build a modern parkway along its route. Success some gradually. Led by Elizabeth Jones, Mississippi's Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) began placing commemorative markers along the Trace. On the 1930s, the politically savvy Roane Fleming Byrnes and members of the Natchez Trace Association joined the effort. As Byrnes recalls, she used "meatloaf and moonship" to court allies that included US Congressman Jeff Busby. It was Busby who introduced a successful bill to survey the Natchez Trace, the first step in creating the Parkway. Although the last section of the Natchez Trace Parkway was completed in 2005, the National Park Service and its partners continue to protect the Parkway today.
4. NT2040_170605_25.JPG: 1908: The DAR began placing granite markers along the route of the Natchez Trace. 1916: A "Pave the Trace" campaign proposed to improve highway along the Trace.
5. NT2040_170605_28.JPG: 1934: The Natchez Trace Association organized to memorialize Trace history. Congress approved a survey of the Trace route.
6. NT2040_170605_31.JPG: Elizabeth Jones and Roane Fleming Byrnes at a Natchez Trace Association gathering. 1938: Congress created the Natchez Trace Parkway as part of the National Park Service.
7. NT2040_170605_34.JPG: "Enough to Keep You Busy for Life" -- Eudora Welty, Mississippi author and Pulitzer Prize winner. The Natchez Trace provides plenty to explore. A narrow strip only 800 feet wide is home to a surprising variety of plants and animals. Dozens of mammal species share the Parkway with countless insects and more than a hundred species of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
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