Natchez Trace

American  

noun

U.S. History.

1. a road begun in 1806 between Natchez, Miss., and Nashville, Tenn.: about 500 miles (800 km) long.

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Example Sentences

Information kiosks and free-standing podiums tell the stories of those who used the Natchez Trace, of the inns and river ferries significant to its function, and of dramatic events such as the death of Meriwether Lewis that happened along the way.

From New York Times

To keep track, I used the NPS trip planner, which offers a complex history of the Natchez Trace.

From New York Times

Nashville to Tupelo, Miss., 222 miles, is one half of the winding, verdant, 444-mile-long All-American Road known as the Natchez Trace Parkway.

From New York Times

It flows from Music City, where I now live, to the southern Mississippi town of Natchez, and memorializes the Natchez Trace, a frontier route used over the centuries by Native Americans, hunters, soldiers, early postal carriers, itinerant preachers and Kaintucks, traders who floated goods down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from roughly the mid-1700s to the mid-1800s, then traveled north to their homes on foot.

From New York Times

As I pulled away from the Loveless Cafe, near the northern end of the Natchez Trace Parkway, the rain clouds that had been brewing southwest of Nashville unleashed a shower over what, in the distance, looked to be tiny Bon Aqua, Tenn., where I once lived.

From New York Times