Yesterday's Natchez Trace

Natchez Trace State Park History Page

About Natchez Trace State Park and Forest

• Natchez Trace Brochure
• The Big Pecan Tree
• Natchez Trace State Resort Park (January 1996 Brochure)
• Pecan Tree, Benton Co. TNGenWeb Page (1956 article, no source given, and circa 2000 photograph of dying tree)

Natchez Trace State Park Photograph Collection

• Before the Park
• Construction — Building the Public Lodge
• Construction — Clearing the Land for the Park
• Construction — Miscellaneous Photographs
• Construction — Gravel Quarry in Decatur County
• Construction — Spillway of Cub Creek Lake
• Photographs by Austin Bobbitt (late 1930s)
• Theater (late 1930s)

More Photographs of Natchez Trace State Park

• Note Cards from Natchez Trace State Park, Priscilla Stanford
• View from the Fire Tower, 1942, from the collection of Mary V. Moore
• Postcards (believed to be from early 1950s), from the collection of Michael Stanford
• Postcards Circa 1960 (about 350K)
• Aerial View of Brown's Creek Lake, from the collection of Michael Stanford

History

• Fairview Gullies (photograph)
• Halbrooks and Woods Houses (photographs)
• It's "Notchy Trace", F. L. Dennison with comments by H. D. Barry
• Natchez Trace State Park 1935-1943: A Look at the Park's Beginning, compiled by Brenda Kirk Fiddler
• Natchez Trace Forest (Resettlement Administration report, 1936)
• Natchez Trace State Park History (park handout)
• Natchez Trace State Resort Park, Henderson County Times (1981)
• 1944 Letter Signed by Park Employees, from the family papers of Michael Stanford
• The West Tennessee Natchez Trace: 1. The Routing of the Natchez Trace, The "Old Notchey", Jonathan K. T. Smith
• The West Tennessee Natchez Trace: 2. Joseph Reed and the Natchez Trace, Jonathan K. T. Smith

Life Before the Park

Communities and Families of the Natchez Trace Area

• Allen Family, photographs from Malcolm Allen
• Before Natchez Trace State Park: Old Survey Community and Precinct School, Brenda Kirk Fiddler
• Cary and Todd Families, photographs from Hurchel Cary
• Cemeteries
• J. W. C. Gibson, photographs from Hurchel Cary and Mary V. Moore
• Michael (Mile) and Priscilla Cowan Stanford, photographs from Michael Stanford
• Natchez Trace Displaced Property Owners, Lexington Progress
• Natchez Trace Tracts Acquired, requires Adobe reader - large file
• "Pre-Park" Settler Families, Lexington Progress (three photographs)
• Ruby Burch, photographs from Barbara Dailey Moore and Jerry Cary
• Todd Family Photographs, photographs from Jerry Cary

Please visit the Natchez Trace State Park page on the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation's Tennessee State Parks web site.