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.

本导览的站点（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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    翡翠土丘 — 10.3英里标记处 美国第二大祭祀土丘,由纳奇兹人的祖先约在公元1300年建造,占地近8英亩(约3.2公顷)。
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    纳奇兹 — 南端终点 零英里标记——小径在密西西比河畔结束。纳奇兹的战前豪宅和河畔悬崖诉说着棉花财富、奴隶制和旧南方的故事。
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    山下纳奇兹码头 粗犷混乱的河畔码头,平底船夫——"肯塔基佬"——在这里结束航程,然后沿纳奇兹小径徒步北归。赌博、喝酒和危险定义了这个码头。

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