The Old Natchez Trace at the Meriwether Lewis National Monument - Pioneer Cemetery - Natchez Trace Parkway - Hohenwald, Tennessee

In the early 1800's, many thoughtful Americans believed that isolation and the difficulties of communication would force the Mississippi Valley settlements to form a separate nation. Hoping to hold the frontier, Congress, in 1800, established a post route from Nashville (TN) to Natchez (MS). The Trace, then a series of Indian Trails, had drawn from the Secretary of State the bitter comment, "The passage of mail from Natchez is as tedious as from Europe when westerly winds prevail." To speed the mail, President Jefferson ordered the army to clear out the trail and make it a road. Postriders, carrying letters, dispatches, and newspaper helped bind the vast turbulent frontier to the republic. However, their day passed by the mid-1830's when steamboats, running from New Orleans to Pittsburg, robbed the Trace of its usefulness as a main post route.

The pathway shown above is a section of the original Old Natchez Trace (before the road) that you can walk on as it winds back and forth across the newer Natchez Trace Road. Some sections are fairly flat adjacent to the nearby roadway and others are deeper, worn out paths that are usually referred to as the 'Sunken Trace'.

This section of the Old Trace is located within Pioneer Cemetery near the Meriwether Lewis National Monument. On February 6, 1925, President Calvin Coolidge used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish this National Monument. The War Department managed the monument and the superintendent of Shiloh National Military Park was put in charge of the monument site. From 1926-1933 the War Department made several improvements to the site, including replacing the deteriorating cemetery headstones and straightening and repointing the Lewis Monument’s stone. The War Department also marked the sections of old Natchez Trace that traveled through the site (like the section shown in the photograph above).

Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

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Taken on: May 2, 2024

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Camera: Nikon D7200, f/7.1, 18mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7200
Aperture:	f/7.1
Focal Length:	18mm
ISO:	800
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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