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The Natchez Trace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriwether_Lewis_National_Monument)
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I thought I would start a thread about this park. It's one I've been on and had the forethought to actually take pictures. The camera is substandard but still it will be good enough to see the images. I'm not a photographer so bare in mind the quality will be lacking in that respect.
For a little history on this park, it goes back to the days before the United States was settled as a nation. For a time, there were the original 13 colonies in the North, with Georgia being a penal location and there were the French and Spanish settlements in the south along the Coast. But there was nothing really connecting the two together. The only way to go from the northern colonies to the southern settlements was either by canoe along the Mississippi River, by sea, or over land. Part of this involved traveling through Indian held country where the traveler was at serious risk as it was pretty much a foot trail that war parties used to raid other tribes. Anything found along the trail was fair game for raids.
Over time and use, the trail expanded into a dirt road of sorts. Connecting the north and the south of the nation. After the Eastern part of the nation begins to be settled, goods travel the Mississippi river by barge from north to south, the party then sells the goods and the barge and then travels The Natchez Trace back north to home.
Later during the Civil War period the Trace is used for troop movements and mail. This follows with people using the Trace to go west during the Westward expansion.
This is a sort of photo record I will be posting of this vacation trip along with explanations along the way of what you are seeing in the images. Mostly people will not be seen. I'll photoedit the images as I go, as most of them are wallpaper sized.
The park is unusual in that it is a long park. It is both a National Park as well as a state park for Mississippi and Tennessee. It takes several days to travel through the complete park and we didn't do it all. Still there will be enough photos here for you to get an idea by seeing them as to what's there.
Given the forum's participation I expect it will be interesting to say the least.
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Very good. I like this!
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Emerald Mound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Mound_Site)
This is the 2nd largest Indian mound in the United States. The images shown here do not really capture the wonder of first seeing it from below at ground level. For lack of a better way to say it, there is a certain awe feeling to looking up at this and knowing it was man made without any power machines.
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It's a great example for cultural tourism. :) Thanks for giving us the opportunity to travel virtually online, too! 8)
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Some of the things I've forgotten to mention about the park, is for one, it goes into/through 3 states. Alabama has part of this park. Another is that some of it is undeveloped. Meaning there are no gas stations, no restaurants, or any stores for that matter within the park while other parts of it in the north do have a sort of gas station/convenience store about every 200 miles or so along the way within the park.
There are also camping areas, about a day's drive apart scattered all along the way. So if you need anything you have to travel out of the park to get it in most of the areas. Camping along the way is how we did it, taking a tent, food and drink in an ice chest, and just enjoy the ride.
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Meaning there are no gas stations, no restaurants, or any stores for that matter within the park...
Maybe a good business niche idea. :)
Camping along the way is how we did it, taking a tent, food and drink in an ice chest, and just enjoy the ride.
Then, probably it's a safe place? /No robbers, maniacs, etc.?/ Or you just took the risk? I just wonder, if there is a problem, how long does it take for a police car (or helicopter?) to arrive?
And a last question: how about the wild nature? Did you spot some unusual or new for you plant, insect, other animals?
And also, I'd like to express my gratitude for this topic, because it's something that's really informative for the people outside of the US. I can tell you what most of the foreigners (non-US people) can associate as geography about USA: New York /some of them think it's the capital, but it's not/, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Boston, Hawaii, Florida, Texas, Nevada, Yellowstone... Indians, WWE, Hollywood...Clinton, Obama, Trump, Sanders... Maybe this is around 80-90% of what they can say and what they know. I know more, of course, but not all. For example I learned about the Ozarks only a few months ago. And today I learned about this trace, thanks to you!
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There is no business niche within the park. The government regulates this, depending on the state, not the federal government. This is why some areas have a gas station within the park and other states do not. Along the way are signs indicating a town and which road to take to go to it. In those towns for near all the history of the park, have developed stores for whatever the traveler needs.
Most of the wildlife is not dangerous. Meaning that if you leave them alone, they will stay away from you by natural fear of humans. Those that do not, are hunted down, killed or removed from the area to some other natural site where people aren't nearby.
This park is huge. There's no way to describe how large it is. You don't see many people along the way. You have the feeling you have it pretty much to yourself all along the way. One of the reasons it takes so long to travel the length of it is that the speed limit for vehicles is much slower than you could do on the interstate. 45 mph is about tops for the upper speed limit.
While the park is long, it is not that wide. Maybe 20 miles wide but 444 miles long. There are cities all along the outside of the park. Flights in would only take minutes from outside. Vehicles a little longer but still well within what most would consider acceptable times.
The Trace has had a long history in it's early days of being littered with robbers and thieves. So much so that it is no longer a problem. It was an area that was concentrated on. We encountered no issues whatever of this nature.
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All along the park are various places of interest where there is just a small parking lot, a sign to explain what you are looking at, and whatever it is of interest. This is one such pull over.
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And I want to add that it's very good that there (seems) aren't any vandals, who will destroy it or draw some graffiti on it!
I can't stop wonder what makes a person such a barbarian, who finds joy in destroying monuments, signs, lights, etc.
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There are no cities in the park, no housing for people to stay at, no developments we would consider necessary for modern day life. If you stay in the park at night, you camp or sleep in your car. There is no convenient motel inside it. There are a few houses in it but not that you can stay at. They are museum showcases and are locked at the end of the day. Park rangers patrol the park at all times. You speed, one of them will write you a ticket. You trash the place, same thing.
There's not a lot of places to enter the park from. Maybe one every 20 or 30 miles apart. You go in and cause troubles, there are just a limited amount of places to leave and radio travels much faster than you. You do something stupid and it is seen, they'll be waiting on you when it comes time to leave.
Most campers are more ecology freaks than not. They are not going to trash the place.
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I've so many images of Mount Locust that I am only going to show a few of them unless more are requested. This will have to be a multi post over at least two if not three posts. Many I have not shown you of the signs but I thought I would cover some of the signs first and then in the next post actually show you the images of the place.
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Very interesting pictures! Thank you for letting us enjoy them!
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In the foreground of the first image you see what is called a split rail fence. Basically, a tree is felled, it's split into the sizes you see and then laid out as seen. It was an easy way to build a fence without digging posts or making gates. Gates were made in a different manner which allowed someone to walk through with their hands full but the animals couldn't. The gates sort of looked like this -----> >------- with the spacing between them closer. A person could just turn sideways and slip between the >'s but the cows and horses could not make the turn to go through.
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In the second image you see one of the park rangers who is station here at the Locust House Museum. He acts as a sort of guide as well as to keep an eye on things that they remain where they are.
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Tomorrow I will show you the images of the inside and it will give you a clue as to the 'modern conveniences' of the time. Blacksmithing was required to make nails. So much of the building you see was put together with very few nails and mostly joints were cut to help the wood stay in place.
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Park rangers patrol the park at all times.
This explains almost all. 8)
Thanks for the good description/explanation!
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He acts as a sort of guide as well as to keep an eye on things that they remain where they are.
Perfect. A guide + a guard/policeman. Things stay in order, the park may save some money. Reasonable management.
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Except the historical value, I'm glad that everything around it's GREEN. When I was in my primary school I learned something like: "Trees are the lungs of the Planet." and it's somehow true. 8)
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I'm glad that everything around it's GREEN.
You'll see a lot of green then. Many won't be shown but it is pretty much green everywhere.
In the following images you will see the insides of the Mount Locus museum and it's representative collection of period pieces of the time.
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This first image is what you would see at the time of a child's room. Notice the beds have a rope frame to hold the mattress. This place would be considered someone well to do with wooden plank floors.
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Here you have an adult's room, most likely for the husband/wife.
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This is the dining area, where one of the few rooms that has enough room to put a spinning wheel for making wool thread from sheep fleece.
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In the background of this image you see what was known as a secretary. The desk with the drop down table for writing that could be folded back up out of the way when not in use.
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This would be the typical pantry. Where kitchen utensils, gardening tools, baskets for toting vegetables in from the garden, and a general storage area out of the weather. It would be accessible from inside living areas.
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Oh! Nice interior photos! Thanks! I'll watch them again and again. I like to learn about this.
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Tidy and nice old houses/rooms. :)
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I did great photos, Mojo! I like them!
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This is a place where we stopped to stretch our legs. Not really noteworthy for anything other than a rest stop on the way.
It takes me a little while to resize the images as they are going from 2580 x 1932 which is much too big for the forum display and also converting them from JPG to PNG format. All EXIF
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Some help about how to resize fast images. I suggest 2 easy ways:
- tinypic.com/index.php has an auto resize ability. There you may choose "Resize: Message Board (640x480)" and it's ready in a few seconds.
- If you have already an uploaded big picture, then you can use our code here and the forum will resize it for you.
Examples:
N'1: a simple non-resized picture sharing:(http://www.seo-forum-seo-luntan.com/pics/pretty anime girl pic.jpg) Code: [img]http://www.seo-forum-seo-luntan.com/pics/pretty anime girl pic.jpg[/img]N'2: the same picture resized in 640x480: (http://www.seo-forum-seo-luntan.com/pics/pretty anime girl pic.jpg) Code: [img height=480 width=640]http://www.seo-forum-seo-luntan.com/pics/pretty anime girl pic.jpg[/img]
Usually I like this way, because all we need is to add the value "height=480 width=640" after [img and before ]. Once again the code for better understanding: [img height=480 width=640]HERE WE PUT THE LINK TO THE PHOTO[/img]
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Yes, it is very easy.
I like the place with that small river. :-*
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Thanks for the help but there is a reason for the manual resizing. The images are so large in data size that they need to be made smaller in order for the host to accept them. That is the main reason for manual resizing. Most hosts simply will not accept images with file sizes this large. In addition while I am at it, I change the format from jpg to png. Reproductions of jpgs get poorer and poorer as they are copied. Png isn't compressed and doesn't have this problem.
Here you see some of the original trail, still visible as it is a hundred plus years later. Keep in mind when you see this trail the former post about the Lowess. It is the cause of this trail being so sunken.
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This was a pleasant and unexpected diversion when you consider most of the land is flat land in this area. The creek was in a secluded spot and sunken. You don't really see what it is till you are right up on it.
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Yes. This is one of the most 'surrealistic' till now. I like it. Because it's in fact not surrealistic, but natural and pretty. :)
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I'll add something (that may sound not that good for some 'puritans', but I do really respect many of them). I just imagine -- what IF Mojo traveled to Las Vegas and shared some photos as these (Natchez Trace's); I think it's going to be amazing (at least for me), because, to tell you the truth, I'm not a gambling person, but I do like that Las Vegas' atmosphere and the roulettes' games.
Btw, Mojo you're probably not a fan of these, but for the record I played roulette already in two places -- in Bulgaria (East Europe) and in Macao (East Asia). Never been to Las Vegas. Only know it from its offline and online fame, and, of course, from the Elivis' song "Viva, Las Vegas!" (Well, it's not 100% his song -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Las_Vegas_(song), but I just learned it from his singing. :) )
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Believe it or not, I've never set foot inside a casino. Been by plenty of them. But there is one thing that prevents me from going inside. I have the wrong sort of personality for gambling. I'd stay at it till it was all gone.
Thing is I'm smart enough to know this and so never gamble. I'm fine with others that want to gamble if that is their thing. It's just not for me.
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It's right. And there is another problem: sometimes even at the beginning of the game you may lose all your money. Like these (examples):
- You place your bet on 'even' 5 times, but there come 5 'odd's.
- You place your bets from 1 to 12, then from 1 to 24 and then from 1 to 30, but there come 35, 0 and 31.
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Here you see the signs for Grindstone Ford. There's not much to see at the ford. The creek isn't really at the ford site anymore. It's moved as you can see in the sign.
A ford for those that don't know, is a shallow place across a creek where wagons and horses can usually cross safely. Many times would find that fords had a natural hard spot under the water that made a road across for the traveler. Missing the ford could create problems such as tipped over wagons and horse that suddenly had to swim. So usually someone would walk ahead of a team or horse to make sure they stayed centered on the ford.
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When I see the last photo and I can feel this virtual travel. 8)
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I've not included a lot of the signs that explain what you are looking at and why it is important. For one, there are a lot of small ones and for the other the signs are hard to read. There was a mulberry tree not to far from the tree line. Birds love the mulberry but every where they crap after that they stain it purple and the signs have purple on them that aids in making it difficult to read.
This is another Indian mound. There are quite a few along the way. This particular mound was a grave site. Much of it done before Columbus sailed to find the New World.
Archeologists probed this site. They found what was assumed family graves where when one parent died, they believed the rest of the family was killed and put in the grave with other. Copper ornaments were found with some of the bodies indicating trade with other groups of Indians far distant from the grave site.
Later on the Natchez tribe kept slaves who were often strangled and laid to serve the master in death. One grave site here it is believed this is what happened in a mass grave burial.
Another grave indicates the likelihood that a mother died after child birth and both were buried in the same grave.
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The sign I had to do a little photoediting on. It stands on a hill and does not sit exactly straight anymore. So I straightened it before sizing.
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Precious information, Mojo!
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How long does it take to travel there from A to Z? :)
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We were on it a week and didn't make it to the state of Tennessee. We camped out along the way every night, fixed our own food, and there was always a lake or shower station to bathe at.
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This time I offer you a bunch of signs that will tell you a bit of the history of The Natchez Trace beyond the really ancient. These particular signs will tell you better than I can.
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There's nothing around these signs to show you but fields and trees.
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It's a long way... So, probably there are a lot of gas stations on the road?
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No, there is no development within the park until you reach the state of Alabama. It is without stores, gas stations, or any other sort of store within the park.
You need gas, food, or anything you can buy, you have to leave the park to find it. Along the way, there are occasional intersections. Some of those will have signs that point which way to go to what town and how far that is.
What is within the park is regulated by the state. Alabama allows a gas station/convenience store about every 200 miles or so. They sell the right to run it to a company as a concession license. No other stores are allowed in the park for the state of Alabama. Don't know about Tennessee, we never made it that far.
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Great topic!
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Great topic!
Thank you, Костов. It is my hope that folks enjoy the pictures.
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Here in the first set of photos is another part of the original Trace.
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The second set of photos is of the reservoir that the Trace runs along for a short stopping point. It has a dam at the other end to maintain the water level.
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It's great also, because it's not just a virtual geography travel, but 'time travel' (history; education).
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Very pretty lake! But it says it's a reservoir (and Mojo also said so). What's the difference?
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A lake is usually a land locked water body, which forms naturally. A reservoir (there are exceptions to the rule) is normally man made to create a body of water from which cities will draw their water supplies from. Under this lake, which you do not see in the images, are drowned forests, where just the trucks and roots of trees remain. You would see those if the water level was really down lower. I think there is also a drowned town in this lake where the residents had to move when the water started rising because of the dam. Of course they had plenty of warning it was coming and the state/government offered to buy their land before it was flooded. Some folk just don't give up.
From Wiki, here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir) is the definition of a reservoir.
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Looks pretty big and natural. Good place!
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Thanks for the explanation, dear Mojo! Now I see.
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500 A.D. - 700 A.D. -- it's a comparatively long history.
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It is very beautifully done! Thanks a lot for sharing!!!
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It is very beautifully done! Thanks a lot for sharing!!!
You're welcome PageRank. I hope you enjoy the images.
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The West Flordia boundry of 1764.
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This follows with a trip to a swamp. You'll see things like cypress knees, which are the root system's method of getting air to the roots in water. If you've not been in a swamp, most are not as clean as this one, which is setup for visitors to walk through with clean feet and look at various vegetation. What you see as green, like grass in color is algae floating on top of the water.
On this trip we visit two swamps so there are a lot of images of swamps. I won't show you them all but there are more than I care to host and resize in a single setting.
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Very pretty nature.
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As I already said:
Very pretty nature.
and I want to say that this photos reminded me a similar natural view from Guangdong, China. Mojo, take a look at my Nature of Guangdong (http://www.seo-forum-seo-luntan.com/plants/the-nature-in-guangdong-china/msg28124/#msg28124) thread, please. I think you'll like them. 5 pictures so far; later I'll upload more.
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The Pearl River runs all the way to the Gulf Of Mexico. It is the source of the water for the reservoir you saw in the earlier pictures.
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Pine forests are pretty much all over the US but the species varies depending on climate. The pines you are seeing in this image, are of the southern varieties which usually consist of the short leaf, long leaf, loblolly, and yellow pine. As the pine ages, the bark gets slicker
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It's interesting.:) In China -- another river with the same name (Pearl river, Zhu Jiang, 珠江): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_River_%28China%29 :).
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I became aware of the Pearl river in China when I made sure my facts were correct on the one in the US flowing into the Gulf and not into a tributary. I used to make frequent canoe trips with a group who once a year took a trip down another river that flowed into the Pearl. It took them about a week to get near the Gulf Coast from their starting location. I never made the weekly trip as my work schedule would not allow it.
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Yes. It's a long time.
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Through out these images, you will see signs that indicate how far we traveled while showing what is along the way. We started at the very beginning outside Natchez. In the image here you see that all this and we've only covered about a 1/3rd of the way in the first state, to give you some idea of scale.
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All along the way, you find spots like this as the rule rather than the exception. Some have historical significance, most do not.
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Through out the US, there are places that are named for the original Indian names. This has not been some idea to credit the Indians with socially correct movements but rather that was what such a location was known as from the first introduction to a place. The names are often what is seen as near unpronounceable to those who first encounter such names. Here is one such name that you might see for yourself.
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Comparatively long way. You traveled like through 2-3 small countries (maybe like the size of Laos and Portugal?)
Did you count how much does this travel cost? (Fuel, food?) What sum (budget) is reasonable? I think it's a comparatively inexpensive travel, because you don't pay for hotels and motels and this saves a lot, right?
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About the languages -- interesting moment is that in 2008, Edward Vajda of Western Washington University presented evidence for a genealogical relation between the Yeneisian languages of Siberia (it's in Asia) and the Na–Dené languages of North America (you may wish to see these 2 sources for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeniseian_languages#Den.C3.A9.E2.80.93Yenisean and http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080326-language-link.html).
This 'Yockanookany' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yockanookany_River) sounds kind of Asian to me and also reminds me a bit the Mexican Indian name Yucatan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n). :)
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Comparatively long way. You traveled like through 2-3 small countries (maybe like the size of Laos and Portugal?)
Did you count how much does this travel cost? (Fuel, food?) What sum (budget) is reasonable? I think it's a comparatively inexpensive travel, because you don't pay for hotels and motels and this saves a lot, right?
Comparatively, costs weren't an issue. I was driving my pickup which is a 4 cylinder and gets good gas mileage. We carried most of the food for our trip with us from the start, making sure we had plenty of ice along the way. So about all we bought was gas, ice, and occasionally a drink. In the park itself, for the large majority you can't spend money. There is nothing that takes it. I had a portable white gas stove and it sets up just about anywhere, including the tailgate.
About the languages -- interesting moment is that in 2008, Edward Vajda of Western Washington University presented evidence for a genealogical relation between the Yeneisian languages of Siberia (it's in Asia) and the Na–Dené languages of North America
Often ancestral sources can be traced through languages and what is common in them. You give a fine demonstration of that with your comment.
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Comparatively long way. You traveled like through 2-3 small countries (maybe like the size of Laos and Portugal?)
Did you count how much does this travel cost? (Fuel, food?) What sum (budget) is reasonable? I think it's a comparatively inexpensive travel, because you don't pay for hotels and motels and this saves a lot, right?
Comparatively, costs weren't an issue. I was driving my pickup which is a 4 cylinder and gets good gas mileage. We carried most of the food for our trip with us from the start, making sure we had plenty of ice along the way. So about all we bought was gas, ice, and occasionally a drink. In the park itself, for the large majority you can't spend money. There is nothing that takes it. I had a portable white gas stove and it sets up just about anywhere, including the tailgate.
About the languages -- interesting moment is that in 2008, Edward Vajda of Western Washington University presented evidence for a genealogical relation between the Yeneisian languages of Siberia (it's in Asia) and the Na–Dené languages of North America
Often ancestral sources can be traced through languages and what is common in them. You give a fine demonstration of that with your comment.
Thanks! :)
Well, that's right -- the languages (linguistics) is very useful in this field (ethnology; ethnogenesis), but people, who aren't professional linguists (as me) should be very careful about the so called 'false friends': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend
This is a funny example: (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/DutchEnglishfalsefriend.png)By Nutricia - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8901549 -- A Dutch advertisement actually meaning "Mama, that one, that one, that one ..." "Please", for a non-Dutch English speaker this reads as though the child is telling her mother to die. :)
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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.
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Very nice part of the Natchez trace!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah... blues. I like it.
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"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. 8)
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Maybe some pals will take it as 'creepy', but I like it. Nature is beautiful! :)
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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.
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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. 8)
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). 8)
And an on-topic opinion: I like mixed forests. When I hear or see 'forest' I imagine exactly a mixed one. :)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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These are images of the French Camp Settlement along with the Drane house museum.
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This is the French Camp post office. That's what it says above the door.
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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.
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We just happened to be there when the roses were blooming and this is one of them.
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Looks sort of romantic! I like those lovely houses. :-* And with the roses around, should be a good place to live in the spring, summer and autumn time. I suppose the winters are comparatively cold around there. :)
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Looks sort of romantic! I like those lovely houses. :-* And with the roses around, should be a good place to live in the spring, summer and autumn time. I suppose the winters are comparatively cold around there. :)
Most of this park is located in Mississippi. It's a southern state. So they are not set up to deal with either ice or snow. If either occurs in the winter, there are no salt trucks to dissolve ice. The best they can do is spread sand on the bridges. Everyone just shuts down till the ice and snow are gone. Mostly a matter of a day or so.
These houses were built before insulation was commercially available. So they have no insulation in them beyond the thickness of the wooden walls. That means fireplaces to keep them warm. Down in Louisiana, some of the older homes used moss as insulation in the walls, around the community of Evangeline, Louisiana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline,_Louisiana) there is a similar museum of local homes of the period of early settlement that show this.
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Inside the Drane house.
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This is a foot powered lathe. Since electricity nor steam engines had been invented yet, foot power was one of the methods used to turn wood.
Another was done by water power where a water wheel was used to supply the power. I have been in a water powered wood shop before, many years ago but sadly I can offer you no pictures of it. It had a central shaft coming off the water wheel, where many different wooden pullies were mounted. Each pully a different size depending on speed needed for the tool to be used. Each pully system went to a particular tool, had a belt that transferred the power, and an idler wheel to take up the slack when that tool was to be used.
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As explained by the sign, this is the Margaret Adams Kimball Museum. I can not show you images of the inside as it was closed when we arrived.
This ends the images I will show you for the Natchez Trace Park.
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It is one of the best threads in this forum! Thanks a million!
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We miss Mojo and his topics so much. :(
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I am often thinking about him and remember many of his wise words.