Pioneer Day at the Natchez Trace Parkway 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will perform living history demonstrations that show the challenges faced, and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to 1840. The demonstrations will take place at the Natchez Trace Parkway`s Visitor Center (located at Milepost 266), from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on the first Saturday of the month. The public is invited to watch pioneer lifestyle activities that often include corn shuck doll making, basket weaving, beading, quill pen demonstrations, and a longhunter`s program involving early medicines. Leatherworking and mountain dulcimer demonstrations will also be offered throughout the day. Children are invited to participate by dressing up in pioneer clothes and trying these activities firsthand. more...
Saturday 10/11/2008
Meriwether Lewis Arts and Crafts Festival 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM The Natchez Trace Parkway will host the annual Meriwether Lewis Arts and Craft Festival at the Meriwether Lewis Monument Site (Mile Post 385.9). The festival is sponsored by the Maury County Arts Guild and will take place October 11 and 12, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. more...
Sunday 10/12/2008
Meriwether Lewis Arts and Crafts Festival 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM The Natchez Trace Parkway will host the annual Meriwether Lewis Arts and Craft Festival at the Meriwether Lewis Monument Site (Mile Post 385.9). The festival is sponsored by the Maury County Arts Guild and will take place October 11 and 12, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. more...
Saturday 10/25/2008
Frontier Day 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Period re-enactors and living history demonstrators will present programs at the Natchez Trace Parkway’s Mt. Locust Historic Inn (located at Parkway milepost 15 near Natchez, Mississippi) from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 25, 2008. more...
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Did You Know?
The "Kaintucks", or boatmen from the Ohio River Valley, would walk approximately 500 miles from Natchez to Nashville along the Natchez Trace in about 30 days.
