Natchez Trace

The words

1. Chickasaw

   The Chickasaw Nation, whose 1801 treaty allowed a wagon road through its homeland.

   Chickasaw Nation: Treaty of Chickasaw Bluffs (opens a new tab) · Park Service: Brochures - Natchez Trace (opens a new tab)

2. Choctaw

   Choctaw Nation homeland crossed by the corridor.

   Park Service: History & Culture - Natchez (opens a new tab)

3. Colbert Ferry

   Stand and ferry run by Chickasaw George Colbert.

   Park Service: Brochures - Natchez Trace (opens a new tab)

4. Emerald Mound

   Eight-acre earthen mound built 1200–1650, now beside the Parkway.

   Park Service: Brochures - Natchez Trace (opens a new tab)

5. Flatboat

   River craft that carried Kaintuck cargo downstream. Its crews then returned overland by the Trace. Why the return trip used the Trace.

   Park Service: Kaintucks - Natchez Trace (opens a new tab)

6. French Camp

   Site of Louis LeFleur’s stand, opened 1812.

   Park Service: Brochures - Natchez Trace (opens a new tab)

7. Grinders Stand

   Inn on the Trace where Meriwether Lewis died in October 1809.

   Park Service: Grinder’s Stand, Milepost 385.9 (opens a new tab)

8. Kaintucks

   Ohio-valley boatmen who walked or rode home up the Trace after selling their cargo.

   Park Service: Kaintucks - Natchez Trace (opens a new tab)

9. Loess

   Ice-age windblown soil in the southern corridor.

   Park Service: Brochures - Natchez Trace (opens a new tab)

10. Mount Locust

    Restored historic stand near Natchez.

    Park Service: Brochures - Natchez Trace (opens a new tab)

11. Nashville

    Northern terminus of the Natchez–Nashville road.

    Chickasaw Nation: Treaty of Chickasaw Bluffs (opens a new tab) · Park Service: Tockshish, Milepost 249.6 (opens a new tab)

12. Natchez

    The Natchez nation, whose homeland the Trace corridor crossed.

    Park Service: History & Culture - Natchez (opens a new tab)

13. Pontotoc

    Pontotoc area of Chickasaw towns on the predecessor route.

    Tennessee Historical Society: Native American (opens a new tab)

14. Sunken Trace

    Deeply eroded section of the original roadbed. Surviving historic road trace (distinct from Parkway).

    Park Service: Brochures - Natchez Trace (opens a new tab)

15. Tockshish

    Mixed community and 1801 post office/relay station on the Trace.

    Park Service: Tockshish, Milepost 249.6 (opens a new tab)