Natchez Trace Living History: Kosciusko’s Return to Redbud Springs - Kosciusko, Mississippi

Kosciusko and Natchez Trace history will come to life in downtown Kosciusko October 26-29, as the Kosciusko Tourism Council and area residents present “Return to Redbud Springs” in honor of the Mississippi Bicentennial. The Natchez Trace Parkway Association living history group will assist with programming.

For two days (October 26 and 27), students from Kosciusko and the surrounding area will tour six educational stations that will feature activities and examples of the culture that the people in central Mississippi exhibited in the early 1800’s. The educational stations will include blacksmith and tomahawk throwing exhibits, Choctaw dancing, basket weaving, and bead making exhibits, and military re-enactments.

Saturday’s events will begin at 9 a.m. in downtown Kosciusko on Natchez Street, which was the original Natchez Trace. Part of Natchez Street will be transformed with split rail fencing, a replica of the Choate’s cabin and other features that would have been on the original Natchez Trace near that site. A Grand Parade, featuring area dignitaries, members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, Kosciusko High School flute & drum corps as well as re-enactors portraying Natchez Trace historical figures will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Washington Street.

From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. the Natchez Trace Parkway Association's Living History Division will provide educational demonstrations and activities, as well as live music and entertainment, including Period Music, Period Dance, Blacksmith, Period Cooking, Choctaw Dances, Choctaw Fry Bread, Re-creation of Choate’s Stand on the Old Trace, Period Duel, Tecumseh’s Speech to Indian Nations and Pushmataha’s Rebuttal, Columbia Light Infantry Encampment, Natchez Trace Cattle Herders and General Andrew Jackson.

The annual meeting of the Natchez Trace Parkway Association will be held at Barrister’s Hall at 4 p.m.

The Kosciusko City Cemetery Tour Saturday evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. and continue until 8:30 p.m. Members of the Kosciusko – Attala Historical Society, along with area residents and students will present re-enactments of the lives of several former Kosciusko residents buried in the cemetery. Tickets for the tour will be on sale prior to, and the night of the event. They will be $5 for adults and $3 for students.

For more information, contact Donna Holdiness at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or go to www.kosytrace.com.