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Natchez Trace

(Encyclopedia)Natchez Trace, road, from Natchez, Miss., to Nashville, Tenn., of great commercial and military importance from the 1780s to the 1830s. It grew from a series of Native American trails used in the 18th...

Natchez Trace Parkway

(Encyclopedia)Natchez Trace Parkway: see National Parks and Monuments (table).

Natchez

(Encyclopedia)Natchez, city (1990 pop. 19,460), seat of Adams co., SW Miss., on bluffs above the Mississippi River; settled 1716, inc. 1803. It is the trade, shipping, and processing center for a soybean, corn, cot...

Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail

(Encyclopedia)Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail: see National Parks and Monuments (table).

Natchez

(Encyclopedia)Natchez nch´z [key], indigenous North American people who lived along St. Catherine's Creek east of the present-day city of Natchez in Mississippi. At the time of contact with the French in 1682,...

Tupelo

(Encyclopedia)Tupelo too´pl, tyoo– [key], city (1990 pop. 30,685), seat of Lee co., NE Miss.; founded 1859, inc. 1870. It is the trade, processing, and shipping center for a cotton, grain, dairying, and ...

Lewis, Meriwether

(Encyclopedia)Lewis, Meriwether, 1774–1809, American explorer, one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark expedition, b. near Charlottesville, Va. He was a captain in the army and served in a number of campaigns a...

Gaines, Edmund Pendleton

(Encyclopedia)Gaines, Edmund Pendleton, 1777–1849, U.S. army officer, b. Culpeper co., Va.; brother of George Strother Gaines. He spent his boyhood in Tennessee and at the age of 22 joined the U.S. army. He surve...

Natchez National Historical Park

(Encyclopedia)Natchez National Historical Park: see National Parks and Monuments (table).

Gayoso de Lemos, Manuel

(Encyclopedia)Gayoso de Lemos, Manuel mänwl´ g´s d l´ms [key], c.1752–1799, governor of Louisiana (1797–99). In 1787 he was appointed governor of the newly organized District of Natchez, under...