Mobile and Natchez Trail

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Farmers from Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana could float their goods down the Mississippi River to market in New Orleans, and then return home on the Natchez Trace risking gangs of robbers.

Route

Trail running from Mobile, Alabama west to Natchez, Mississippi.

Historical Background

• Natchez Trace Collection, provincial and territorial records, 1759-1813

Wiki Pages

• Natchez-Lower Creeks Trail