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On Natchez Trace Parkway (at milepost 251.9), 0.3 miles north of Pontocola Road (County Road 506), on the left when traveling north.
Ages ago this area was under an arm of the ocean. Shells and other marine organisms were deposited to form the limestone seen here.
Exposure of the limestone to all types of weathering gradually changed it into a heavy fertile soil of various . . . — — Map (db m84816) HM
On Natchez Trace Parkway (at milepost 251.1), 0.5 miles south of Pontocola Road (County Road 506), on the right when traveling north.
Westerly on the Natchez Trace stood an Indian village “Pontatock” with its council house which, in the 1820's, became the “Capitol” of the Chickasaw Nation.
The chiefs and headmen met there to sign treaties or to . . . — — Map (db m84817) HM
On Natchez Trace Parkway (at milepost 249.6), 2 miles south of Pontocola Road (County Road 506), on the left when traveling north.
Named for a Chickasaw word meaning “tree root,” Tockshish was a community of Indians and white men on the Natchez Trace to the northwest. John McIntosh, British agent to the Choctaws, first settled there before 1770.
In 1801, . . . — — Map (db m84818) HM