Day 73 - Natchez Trace

We left West Memphis early and headed south to The Natchez Trace Parkway. We drove about 2/3rds of the way and stopped for the night just outside of Jackson, Mississippi. The Natchez Trace was a series of Indian paths that the early settlers adopted as the main route from Natchez, MS on the river to Nashville, TN. There were inns and taverns about every 10 miles all the way and the road was notorious for bandits.

Part of the original trace

Parts of the road were and still is 12 feet below the ground level due to all the traffic on the roadway over many years.

This is a plantation home in use until the 1940 and built in the 1700s. It was an Inn or Stand as they were known during the traces most use in the 1820s and 1830s.