A 444-mile drive along an ancient path — from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi. The Trace follows trails used by Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez peoples for centuries before European explorers walked this same ground.

Stationen dieser Tour (15)

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   Northern Terminus — Nashville Mile 444 — the Trace begins in the wooded hills south of Nashville. The parkway was authorized by Congress in 1938, following the path of the original wilderness road.
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   Double Arch Bridge A modern engineering landmark — two graceful concrete arches carry the Trace 155 feet above a valley. It was the first segmentally constructed concrete arch bridge in the United States.
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   Leipers Fork A charming hamlet just off the Trace where Nashville songwriters retreat to write. Puckett's Grocery serves up country cooking and live music most evenings.
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   Meriwether Lewis Monument — Milepost 385.9 The explorer died here under mysterious circumstances in 1809. His grave and a reconstructed inn mark the spot where one of America's greatest adventurers met his end.
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   Jackson Falls — Milepost 404.7 A short trail descends to a 30-foot waterfall. The limestone bluff sheltered travelers on the old Trace for thousands of years.
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   Colbert Ferry — Tennessee River George Colbert, a Chickasaw chief, operated a ferry here that Andrew Jackson himself used. The Tennessee River crossing marked the boundary of Chickasaw territory.
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   Freedom Hills Overlook — Milepost 317 The highest point on the Trace in Alabama at 800 feet. The rolling hills give way to the Black Belt prairies of Mississippi ahead.
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   Pharr Mounds — Milepost 286.7 Eight ancient burial mounds built between 1 and 200 AD. The Woodland-period earthworks are among the largest ceremonial sites in the Southeast.
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   Tupelo — Elvis Presley Birthplace The two-room shotgun house where Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935. Tupelo was also the site of a devastating 1936 tornado that killed 216 people.
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    Chickasaw Village — Milepost 261.8 An interpretive site marking a Chickasaw village that existed here when Europeans first traveled the Trace. The Chickasaw controlled this territory for centuries.
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    Jeff Busby Site — Milepost 193.1 One of the few service stops on the Trace. Little Mountain summit offers views across the Mississippi hill country — a sea of green rolling to every horizon.
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    Cypress Swamp — Milepost 122 A boardwalk trail through a tupelo-bald cypress swamp. Alligators sun on the logs and barred owls call from the canopy in this primordial Southern wetland.
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    Emerald Mound — Meilenstein 10,3 Der zweitgrößte zeremonielle Erdhügel der USA, erbaut von den Vorfahren der Natchez um 1300 n. Chr. Er bedeckt fast 3,2 Hektar.
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    Natchez — Südliches Ende Meile 0 — der Trace endet am Mississippi. Natchez' Villen aus der Vorkriegszeit und die Steilküste über dem Fluss erzählen die Geschichte von Baumwollreichtum, Sklaverei und dem Alten Süden.
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    Natchez Under-the-Hill Die raue Uferfront, wo die Flachbootmänner — die "Kaintucks" — ihre Reisen beendeten und den Trace nach Norden zurückwanderten. Glücksspiel, Alkohol und Gefahr prägten diesen Landeplatz.

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