Sunken Trace

"Our journey along the Natchez Trace Parkway, north out of Natchez, Mississippi has brought us to a site near Port Gibson, the town U. S. Grant found too beautiful to burn during the civil war. Today's site is called SUNKEN TRACE.

"SUNKEN TRACE is a place you can walk along a section of the old trail and see how the footsteps of animals and people over the centuries have worn their way deep into the loose topsoil deposited here by windstorms hundreds of thousands of years ago.

"If you decide to take a few minutes to walk the Old Trace, you may be fooled by the shadows and the tangle of vines, and roots, and the Spanish Moss that makes beards for the trees, and believe this to be an enchanted forest; but as you walk, try to imagine how the travelers in the early 1800s felt having 500 miles to endure, not knowing if they would survive the swamps, and the heat, and the swollen rivers and streams, the insects, disease, and accidents that lay ahead for them.

"Join us next time when we'll visit Grindstone Ford where early travelers along the Trace took their first steps into the wilderness. This is Frank Thomas, your guide along the Natchez Trace, a road through the wilderness."

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