Mississippi’s longest rails-to-trails conversion meanders 44 miles through the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, passing through fields, forests, meadows and wetlands, travelling along the path of the Chickasaws, Meriwether Lewis and the railroad built by Col. William C. Falkner, great-grandfather of Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner.
The Tenn-Tom Waterway offers adventure for all who traverse this Deep South mecca. Antebellum homes, Civil War sites and Native-American burial mounds are found all along the route. There are a number of quaint museums and shops for those who enjoy exploring small cities. Sports enthusiasts can enjoy fishing, water sports and outdoor activities.
This Middle Woodland Mound Site has been dated to approximately 2,200 years ago and is the oldest documented man-made site in Union County. Smithsonian archaeologists excavated the site in the middle 1880s, creating the map (below) and took hundreds of objects for its permanent collection. A selection of those objects is on loan from the…
The old Natchez Trace was full of life, a melting pot of humanity. Settlers and Indians, merchants and robbers, the fantastically rich and the tragically poor all came together on this rutted roadway between Natchez and Nashville, two of the most important towns in the South.
This six-foot-tall bronze sculpture of Chickasaw Chief Piomingo by William Beckwith sits in front of the Tupelo City Hall.
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a 444-mile drive through exceptional scenery and 10,000 years of North American history. Used by American Indians, “Kaintucks,” settlers and future presidents, the Old Trace played an important role in American history. Today, visitors can enjoy not only a scenic drive but also hiking, biking, horseback riding and camping.
