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Header: Use of Byway Funds · Public Domain. Photo by Dennis Adams · Photo credits
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A parking lot in Tupolo receives a facelift with byway funds on the Natchez Trace.
Designated byway

Natchez Trace Parkway

Native Americans, Kaintuck boatmen, post riders, government officials, and soldiers all moved across this trail, creating a vital link between the Mississippi Territory and the fledgling United States. Pass through forests, cypress swamps, and farmland to meander through the rock-studded hills of Tennessee, cotton fields in Alabama, and Mississippi s rural countryside.

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