Near Natchez Trace Parkway (at milepost 100.7), 0.5 miles west of Interstate 55, on the left when traveling east.
U.S. agents like Silas Dinsmoor lived among the Choctaw and represented their interests while implementing U.S. policy. His duties included surveying and preventing illegal settlement on Choctaw land. He also encouraged the Choctaw to be more . . . — — Map (db m87362) HM
On Old Agency Road east of North Livingston Road, on the left when traveling east.
Named for the Choctaw Indian Agency
once located in this area, Old Agency
Road is a portion of the original road
system that formed the old Natchez
Trace. Its sunken roadbed and high
earthen banks are evocative of the
narrow road that . . . — — Map (db m115374) HM
On Old Agency Road west of Highland Colony Parkway, on the right when traveling west.
Named for the Choctaw Indian Agency once located in this area, Old Agency Road is a portion of the original road system that formed the old Natchez Trace. Its sunken roadbed and high earthen banks are evocative of the narrow road that linked Natchez . . . — — Map (db m115375) HM
Near Natchez Trace Parkway (at milepost 104.5), 1 mile east of Old Canton Road.
Two portions of a nearly 200 year old wilderness road, the Old Natchez Trace, are preserved here. Nearly 500 miles long, it grew from Indian trails to a national road and communications link between the Old Southwest and the United States to the . . . — — Map (db m87363) HM
On West Jackson Street at NE Madison Drive, on the right when traveling west on West Jackson Street.
What is now the City of Ridgeland was
first settled in 1832 when William Austin
purchased land in this area near the
Natchez Trace. James Yellowley bought
the property in 1853. He sold it in 1896 to
Gorton Nichols and Edward Treakle, who . . . — — Map (db m115381) HM