Chickasaw Village Site
Natchez Trace
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From here you can hike north to Old Town Overlook and the Tupelo Visitors Center.
Here once stood an Indian village of several houses and a fort. During the summer they lived in rectangular, well-ventilated houses. In the winter they lived in round houses with plaster walls. In times of danger, everybody - warriors, women, children - sought shelter in strongly fortified stockades. Original foundations of four of these structures are overlaid with concrete curb on the ground.
The Chickasaw Nation - This tribe, population about 2000, lived in the Chickasaw Old Fields, a small natural prairie near Tupelo, Mississippi. Although their villages occupied an area of less than 20 square miles, the Chickasaw claimed and hunted over a vast region in northern Mississippi, Alabama, western Tennessee and Kentucky. The Chickasaw were closely related to the Choctaw, Creek and Natchez, as well as some the smaller tribes of the Mississippi Valley. De Soto's followers were the first Europeans to see the Chickasaw with whom they fought a bloody battle in 1541. The Chickasaw, after ceding the last of their ancestral lands to the United States, moved in 1837-1847 to Oklahoma to become one of the 5 civilized tribes.
The English-French Conflict 1700-1763 - England and France, after the founding of Louisiana fought four wars for control of North America. The Chickasaw became allies of the British, who used them as a spearhead to oppose French expansion. This tribe, with British help, not only remained independent, but threatened French shipping on the Mississippi. The French conquered or made allies of all the tribes along the Mississippi except for the Chickasaw. They made great efforts to destroy this tribe, sending powerful forces against them in 1736 and 1740 and incited the Choctaw and other tribes to do likewise. The Chickasaw successfully resisted and remained a thorn in the side of France, until she in 1763, lost all her North American possessions.
The French-Chickasaw War in 1736. The Chickasaw threatened French communications between Louisiana and Canada, and urged the Choctaw to trade with the English. Bienville decided to destroy the Chickasaw tribe. In 1735, he ordered a column of French and Indians led by Pierre D'Artaguette from Illinois to meet him near Tupelo. Bienville, leading a French Army joined by the Choctaws, proceeded via Mobile up the Tombigbee. Arriving at the Chickasaw villages, May 25, 1736, he saw nothing of D'Artaguette. D'Artaguette was dead. Two months earlier the Chickasaw had defeated and killed him and forced his followers to flee. Ignorant of D'Artaguette's defeat, Bienville attacked the fortified village of Ackia, May 26, 1736. Bloodily repulsed, he withdrew to Mobile, leaving the Chickasaw more dangerous than ever.
1 Bay Springs Lake
Access/Exit Mississippi Highway 4
2 Sachem Bed and Breakfast
3 Baldwyn, Mississippi
4 Belmont, Mississippi
5 Belmont Hotel
6 Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site
7 Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
8 Pharr Mounds
9 Donivan Slough
Access/Exit Mississippi Highway 370/371
10 Twentymile Bottom Overlook
11 Dogwood Valley
Access/Exit Mississippi Highway 363
12 Confederate Gravesites and Old Trace
13 A Lazy Dog Ranch Bed and Breakfast
Access/Exit Mississippi Highway 145
14 Tupelo Visitors Center
15 Old Town Overlook
Access/Exit US Highway 78
Access/Exit Mississippi Highway 178 (McCullough Blvd)
* Chickasaw Village Site
16 Elvis Presley Birthplace
17 Tupelo Automobile Museum
18 Tupelo, Mississippi
19 Tupelo National Battlefield
Access/Exit Mississippi Highway 6 (Main Street)
Access/Exit Cliff Gookin Boulevard
Access/Exit Palmetto Road (Verona exit)
20 Black Belt Overlook
Access/Exit Pontocola Road (County Road 506)
21 Chickasaw Council House
22 Tockshish
Access/Exit Mississippi Highway 41
23 Monroe Mission
24 Owl Creek Mounds
25 Davis Lake Recreation Area
26 Hernando de Soto
27 Chickasaw Agency
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* Chickasaw Village Site
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