The Natchez Trace - Hohenwald, Tn.
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fatcat161
N 35° 30.563 W 087° 27.608
16S E 458273 N 3929631
Quick Description: The 444-mile Natchez Trace was an ancient trail used by animals and people that connected southern portions of the Mississippi River, through Alabama, to salt licks in today's central Tennessee.
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 11/3/2009 1:20:16 PM
Waymark Code: WM7K5V
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Long Description:Marker text:
Natchez Trace
This plainly visible, though long deserted road is a section of
the Natchez Trace, evolved from Buffalo and Indian Trails, into the
first National Highway of teh South-west, cut and opened inder
authority of the United States Goverment, after treaties negotiated
with the Chickaswa and the Choctaw Indians, in 1801.
Designed to meet eary necessities of trade between Nashville and
the Country of the Lower Mississippi; it is an abiding footprint of
the bold, crude commerce of the Pioneers; yet it is not without
military significance in the history of our Country. Over it passed
a part of Andrew Jackson's army in his campaign against the Creek
Indians in 1813, and again on his return from the battle fiels of
New Orleans in 1815.
But. before Talledega and New Orleans- before the soldiers of
Jackson had given renown to the Natchez Trace, it received its
immortal touch of melancholy fame when Meriwether Lewis, Journeying
over it on his way to Philadelphia, to edit the story of his great
expedition, here meet his untimely death on the night of Oct. 11,
1809.