BGuthrie Photos: MS -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 275.2 -- Dogwood Valley

MS -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 275.2 -- Dogwood Valley:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NT2752_170606_06.JPG: Dogwood Valley Flowering dogwood is a common small tree throughout the eastern United States from Maine and Michigan south to Texas and Florida. Here the Natchez Trace passes through a small valley with an unusual stand of large dogwood trees. An easy 15-minute walk takes you along a sunken portion of the Old Trace and through a small wooded area named Dogwood Valley.
2. NT2752_170606_08.JPG: Old Trace: This eroded road which the trail follows for a short distance is a portion of the original Natchez Trace. Many years of foot, horse, and some wagon travel as well as nearly 200 years of rain have worn this SUNKEN TRACE.
3. NT2752_170606_15.JPG: Dogwood Valley: From here you may look down into DOGWOOD VALLEY and see several of the larger and older dogwood as well as many young trees. Some of these larger dogwood are probably at least 100 years old and could be even older.
4. NT2752_170606_18.JPG: Dogwood: DOGWOOD usually grows under the shade of taller trees in rich, well-drained soils. It is one of the more common and widely distributed trees in the hardwood forests of the mid-Atlantic and Southern States, ranging in elevation from sea level to the summit of the Allegheny Mountains (4,800 ft.).
5. NT2752_170606_24.JPG: Logging Road: You are walking along an old LOGGING ROAD built when the area was logged many years ago. Wagons hauling harvested trees to the mill compacted the ground and little vegetation has grown back.
6. NT2752_170606_29.JPG: Flowers: Dogwood and redbud are the first trees to flower in the spring, in April and May before any leaves have appeared. Four showly-white bracts, or modified leaves, surrounding the cluster of small greenish flowers appear profusely on the bare dogwood branches.
7. NT2752_170606_32.JPG: Fruit: Clusters of bright, shiny red, egg-shaped fruit, 1/2" in diameter and 30-40 in a head, appear in October. Although unpalatable to humans, they are eaten by squirrels and many birds, including wild turkey and bobwhite.
8. NT2752_170606_34.JPG: Wood: Slow-growing dogwood produces a very hard, heavy wood extremely resistant to shock. For this reason it was used in early days for mauls, mallets, and wedges and more recently for heads of golf sticks and chisel handles.
9. NT2752_170606_40.JPG: Uses of Bark: Dogwood bark is aromatic and tastes bitter. Pioneers steeped the bark in whiskey, drinking this when they had "the shakes" and the "ague." The bark was used in the Confederacy during the Civil War when there was a shortage of quinine.
10. NT2752_170606_43.JPG: Indian Uses: Indians knew of the medicinal properties of dogwood bark and used it as a remedy for malaria. From the roots they derived a scarlet dye for coloring porcupines quills and bald eagle feathers.
11. NT2752_170606_47.JPG: Re-Sprouted Dogwood: Some trees just will not give up. Both forks of this dogwood were bent down many years ago. Several branches sprouted upward and developed into the four trunks of this odd-shaped tree.
Description of Subject Matter: Short walk among dogwood trees.
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