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 === Route  ===
-'''''Original trace south to north:'''''<ref>William E. Myers, ''Indian Trails of the Southeast'' (Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1971), 77-81. ({{FHL|54678|item|disp=FHL Book 970.1 M992i}}) [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1523234&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;referer=brief_results WorldCat entry].</ref>
+'''''Original trace south to north:'''''<ref>William E. Myers, ''Indian Trails of the Southeast'' (Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1971), 77-81. ({{FHL|54678|item|disp=FHL Book 970.1 M992i}}) [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1523234&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;referer=brief_results WorldCat entry].</ref>
 *Natchez, Adams, Mississippi
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 '''Counties on the Natchez Trace''' ''(south to north)''<ref name="HBG">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.'' (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 852. ({{FHL|1049485|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 2002}}). [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50140092 WorldCat entry.]</ref>
-*'''''Mississippi:&nbsp;''''' [[Adams County, Mississippi|Adams]], [[Jefferson County, Mississippi|Jefferson]], [[Claiborne County, Mississippi|Claiborne]], [[Hinds County, Mississippi|Hinds]], [[Madison County, Mississippi|Madison]], [[Leake County, Mississippi|Leake]], [[Winston County, Mississippi|Winston]], [[Oktibbeha County, Mississippi|Oktibbeha]], [[Clay County, Mississippi|Clay]], [[Monroe County, Mississippi|Monroe]]
+*'''''Mississippi:&nbsp;''''' [[Adams County, Mississippi|Adams]], [[Jefferson County, Mississippi|Jefferson]], [[Claiborne County, Mississippi|Claiborne]], [[Hinds County, Mississippi|Hinds]], [[Madison County, Mississippi|Madison]], [[Attala County, Mississippi|Attala]], [[Choctaw County, Mississippi|Choctaw]], [[Webster County, Mississippi|Webster]], [[Chickasaw County, Mississippi|Chickasaw]], [[Lee County, Mississippi|Lee]], [[Itawamba County, Mississippi|Itawamba]], [[Tishomingo County, Mississippi|Tishomingo]]
-*'''''Alabama:&nbsp;''''' [[Lauderdale County, Alabama|Lauderdale]]
+*'''''Alabama:&nbsp;''''' [[Colbert County, Alabama|Colbert]], [[Lauderdale County, Alabama|Lauderdale]]
-*'''''Tennessee:&nbsp;''''' Lawrence County, Tennessee|Lawrence]], [[Giles County, Tennessee|Giles]], [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury]], [[Williamson County, Tennessee|Williamson]], [[Davidson County, Tennessee|Davidson]]
+*'''''Tennessee:&nbsp;''''' [[Wayne County, Tennessee|Wayne]], [[Lewis County, Tennessee|Lewis]], [[Hickman County, Tennessee|Hickman]], [[Williamson County, Tennessee|Williamson]], [[Davidson County, Tennessee|Davidson]]
-'''Overlapping and Connecting Routes:&nbsp;''' [[Jackson's Military Road]] followed the same path as the Trace from Nashville to [[Monroe County, Mississippi]]. In Monroe County [[Jackson's Military Road]] forked off south headed for New Orleans. The north end of the Trace eventually linked to the [[Maysville Turnpike]] into Kentucky and beyond. The south end of the Natchez Trace starts in Natchez (a river port) on the Mississippi River, gateway to Baton Rouge, New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.
+'''Overlapping and Connecting Routes:&nbsp;''' [[Jackson's Military Road]] followed the same path as the Trace from Nashville to Tupelo. [[Jackson's Military Road]] forked off south in Tupelo, [[Lee County, Mississippi]] headed for New Orleans. The north end of the Trace eventually linked to the [[Maysville Turnpike]] into Kentucky and beyond. The south end of the Natchez Trace starts in Natchez (a river port) on the Mississippi River, gateway to Baton Rouge, New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.
 === Settlers and Records  ===