[mojo]

The second set of photos are of a magnolia tree, a small one not yet grown. This is followed by a picture of one of the flowers in it. The magnolia tree flowers once a year. Through the magic of photoediting, I have removed most of the tree so that just the flower and the limb it is on is in the image.

[MSL]

Very nice part of the Natchez trace!

[mojo]

Along the way, every couple of days, we left the park to get gas. At one such town we stopped at, was a park museum sort of history. This particular town was named after a General and they had a wax statue, dressed in period clothes of him. Much of his history also dealt with what is now known as West Point. At the time it was not a school but a military fort.

The first image is that of a bale of cotton as it was done in the olden times. The second is an explanation about it.

The last image is a bit harder to explain. Mississippi where a goodly portion of this park is located, is also the home of a music genre known as the blues. Most bands today that call themselves blues bands are not really the real thing. They attempt to recreate the rhythms and the licks but most of the real blues were done on acoustic guitars. Back in the late 1930s and in the 1940s the music labels got wind of it and came in to record the sounds, the licks, and if possible offer a contract to sell the song. Most often when they bought a song it was for something like $5. Later they encouraged bands of the time on the radio to learn to play these licks and tunes to produce the beginnings of much of rock n roll.

This map in the image is where the homes of particular artists lived that produced these types of blues. Their styles later became famous all over the world but it originated in Mississippi.

[MSL]

 I can add something about this last post of Mojo's.
 

• I read an article about a cotton factory. The author said that when there is a lot of cotton around you, then you hardly can hear others, no matter how loud they're talking, i.e. the cotton is a sound isolation material.
• This part: "Currently farmers receive between 50 and 60 cents per pound of cotton, but a good quality cotton shirt may be sold for as much as $100.00. This is the reason you see few cotton fields near Kosciusko today..." reminds me the same problem in Bulgaria, where often your may read reports/news that cherries, potatoes, etc. are bought cheap, but sold expensive.

I feel good, when I read and see all this. It's informative and it helps people to understand USA better.

[SEO]

Yeah... blues. I like it.

[mojo]

[MSL]

"Plants need water much as men men need money.
Some are satisfied with little; some cannot flourish unless they have a lot; the majority can live contentedly with medium amounts."
 It's a very good analogy.

[Alexa]

Maybe some pals will take it as 'creepy', but I like it. Nature is beautiful!

[mojo]

Maybe some pals will take it as 'creepy', but I like it. Nature is beautiful!

There were other shots I have of this area. I chose not to show them but rather to give an example of the area in one shot. I also did it this way as the next set of photos is more like the house museum in an earlier set.

[SEO]

It's all up to you. We accept many different photos here (even very simple ones). Yours are high quality, informative and valuable (from my perspective) and welcome anytime. You just post all you wish and all you can, anytime. This is the golden mean.

I believe that is the right way for this site to become a site with good earnings, a popular one, that may not only support itself as hosting and domain, but also to share a good profit with its best contributors (as you).

And an on-topic opinion: I like mixed forests. When I hear or see 'forest' I imagine exactly a mixed one.

[mojo]

 

It's all up to you. We accept many different photos here (even very simple ones). Yours are high quality, informative and valuable (from my perspective) and welcome anytime. You just post all you wish and all you can, anytime. This is the golden mean.

Thank you. I try not to bore you with too many images of the same location so that you might get a feel for what is shown without losing interest in the topic by keeping it moving.

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This image I cropped so that it might be easier to read. The original has a lot of background in it and makes the sign much smaller and hard to read.

This sign is difficult to read due to the lighting and the letters being the same material as the background. It says:

This Memorial Marks a stage on the Natchez Trace. The first highway opened through the lower south. By the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek in 1830 between the American government and the Choctaw Indians, the surrounding country became a part of the state of Mississippi. Here Andrew Jackson's Tennessee and Kentucky commands rested on their way to join him in his coast campaign in the war of 1812, during which second struggle for American Independence, Mississippi took a heroic part.

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Presented to the town of French Camp by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution, November 10, 1915.

 

The last image is the start of another home museum of the time. I have closer shots similar to the first set I will cover soon. I would like to call your attention to a feature you can see in this image. Notice the center of the house. It's an open hall type area through the middle. This was typical of building styles before air conditioning was invented and is known as a breeze way. The difference in temperature between the sun heated air and the shaded part under the roof of the house, created a natural breeze through the area. People would sit in their rocking chairs during the heat of the day to cool off. You'll see better details of this later.

[Alexa]

Interesting, as usual!

I didn't know there were Indian slaves too. Maybe not so many as the black ones? What's the reason they use imported slaves (from Africa), not local slaves (American Indians)? Does anyone here knows more about it?

[MSL]

 Long time ago (there were no internet), when I was in the primary school we learned that it's because the most of the Indians were too proud to accept this life and they preferred to commit suicides than to become slaves.
 Now, in the Internet era, we can easily find, that it wasn't so simple. Read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States

[mojo]

Interesting, as usual!

I didn't know there were Indian slaves too. Maybe not so many as the black ones? What's the reason they use imported slaves (from Africa), not local slaves (American Indians)? Does anyone here knows more about it?

MSL is partially right in the fact that Indians are a proud people. It goes a bit deeper too for other reasons stemming from this. One escaped Indian slave making it back to the tribe, would create much alienation against the whites over the slave issue. Next thing the slave farms knew, they were fighting to keep alive as these tribes responded to one of their own being put in chains. Slavers were then not only having to be watchful of the slaves but having to be watchful of the surrounding area for the safety of their own hides.

This went further than just slavers as all whites came under suspicion. Some one out hunting for meat to feed the family was likely not to return home. Most of the products made by slaves was cotton. Families made gardens but supplimented their diets with wild game.

The African slave didn't have this sort of support waiting in the wings. When they arrived they were isolated and in a new, brutal world. It didn't matter if they tried to run, nearly all hands were against them unless they found the smuggling railroad to get them north.

[mojo]

 


 

These are images of the French Camp Settlement along with the Drane house museum.

This is the French Camp post office. That's what it says above the door.
 

This is the French Camp Blacksmith Academy. It's an actual school for those wanting to learn the ways of an old time blacksmith. Blacksmiths of the time were valued and most towns needed one. They made horse shoes, nails, hinges, and various other items that were important and were cheaper to be made at the site rather than imported across the country.

We just happened to be there when the roses were blooming and this is one of them.