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ID: 7017547
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017547
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Natchez Trace Parkway (parkway)  Natchez Trace Parkway (parkway)

Note: Historic road following an Amerindian trail ("trace") northeastward from Natchez, Mississippi across NW Alabama, to Nashville, Tennessee; from 1800 to 1820 it was the most important highway in the Southwest; declined after advent of the river steamer.

Names:
Natchez Trace Parkway (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Natchez Trace Parkway (parkway)  ............  Natchez Trace Parkway (parkway) (P)

Place Types:
parkway (preferred, C)  ............  became part of National Park system in 1938; was originally an Amerindian trail
road (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Natchez Trace Parkway..........  [VP Preferred]
......................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 528
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 528
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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