TN -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 370.0 -- Exhibit Shelter:
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- NT3700_170606_09.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.
- NT3700_170606_12.JPG: Abundant Variety:
There is something for everyone along the Natchez Trace Parkway. Enjoy scenic overlooks, intimate tree-shaded trails, and tumbling waterfalls. Learn the stories of travelers, explorers, military men, and the Chickasaw and Cherokee people who still treasure their homelands.
Where you are here for exercise, recreation, relaxation, or just a leisurely drive, you will find an abundance of nature and history along the Natchez Trace.
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.
- NT3700_170606_15.JPG: An Enduring Past
Lands along the Natchez Trade Parkway remain the historic homelands of the Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw people. This is the birthplace of their cultural lives. Among some of the most significant sites are monumental earthworks -- mounts -- created by their ancestors.
Tribal storytellers remember this homeland. Children listen to elders, entranced by the achievements of the mound builders. Deeply troubled by their ancestors' forced removal from their homelands, listeners are sustained by stories of resilience and hope, as their nations reestablished political and cultural traditions in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma).
Each year, many will return here to celebrate and honor the enduring legacies bestowed by this ancient homeland.
- NT3700_170606_19.JPG: Journey of Injustice
In 1835, a small group of Cherokee signed the controversial Treaty of New Echota, leading to the removal of over 15,000 Cherokee from their homelands.
A sense of indescribable sadness and foreboding hovered over the Cherokee people as they were removed from their cherished homelands. Due to the raw emotions, illness, and death along the way, the journey became known as the Trail of Tears.
- NT3700_170606_22.JPG: Cherokee Removal Routes:
Year in the making, the tragic journey began in October 1838. Both state and federal officials wanted the Cherokee removed to the west.
John Bell led a group of over 600, including treaty supporters, across the Natchez Trace near here. Others followed routes over land and water.
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