This is a section of the original Trace. In the early 1800's, farmers from the Midwest would build rafts and float there goods down the Ohio and then the Mississippi rivers to Natchez. There they would sell the goods and the wood from the rafts. Then travel overland via the Trace from Natchez to Nashville, by foot or a few by horseback to return back home and do it all over again the next year.
Long walk! 444 miles!
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