Natchez Trace Parkway-12 July 2013

 Started our day at the Pharr Indian Mounds along the Natchez Trace Parkway. The Ranger gave a very nice lecture on the Native peoples who built the mounds. She presented Native peoples, then and now, in a very respectful way and with honor.  If you are interested in Native culture and mound building the Natchez Trace Parkway is one place you should visit. In addition to Native mounds you will find many other Native sites to visit along the Trace.
  After the mounds we visited the Trace Visitor Center to get our stamps. By this time we were a bit hungry so we ran into town, Tupelo, MS. There are several places one can eat, Blue Canoe or The Neon Pig and a few others I can not recall now. We ate at the Neon Pig. It is one of those places that will give you a heart attack, but the food is great. All locally grown food is severed here, it is also a butcher shop. We had a smash burger, sirloin, smoked bacon and cured ham all ground together and cooked. They add onions and a special sauce they make. Boy it was good.
  Then it was off to a couple Civil War sites, Tupelo and Brices Cross Road. Not much to see at the Tupelo site, one monument and two canons. The local community has spread out so much that this is the only thing one can see at this site. It is so small there is no parking close by so you can read the markers that are there. I took a few pictures of the site while we sat at a red light.
  Brices Cross Roads is a much better site. There is a good visitor center where one should start at, watch the film and then make your way to the battlefield.
 The last stop of the day was the Chickasaw Village along the Natchez Trace. The outline of the village is the only thing you can see here but a few markers tell the tale of life in the village.
 It is very hot in Mississippi in July so by this time we had drained our water supply and it was time to head back to our hotel room in Corinth, MS.

                                                               Chickasaw Village