"THREE CHOPPED WAY" Traditional Cache
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I have been watching this site for a while I have noticed over the years the sign and area has been going down, it is my hopes that this CACH will bring some much needed attention to this historic land mark
"THREE CHOPPED WAY"
"Three Chopped Way" was established between Natchez, Mississippi and Burnt Corn, Alabama in 1807. This was the main road across the old Southwest immigrants, travelers, and settlers used moving to the western United States. It was the "only" road settlers used to go into the Southwest. It was the first east-west connection that tied together the two primary north-south roads, the Natchez Trace and the Federal Highway. When they built the extension in 1807 from Burnt Corn to St. Stephens, Indians and surveyors used a system of blazes chopped into tree trucks to direct traffic, thus the name "Three Chopped Way."
The Three Chopped Way" was important because it opened migration through the first land sales in the public domain areas of the Mississippi Territory. Burn Corn is located at the junction of the Wolf Path (route to Pensacola Highway 29) and "Three Chopped Way.
Jasper County was formed in 1833 out of Jones and Wayne Counties. It is the only county in the State that has two old highways crossing in it. The 'Old Jackson Millitary Highway' from New Orleans to Nashville crosses the upper branch of the Federal Horse Path (Road) from Evergreen, Alabama to Natchez about three miles north of Bay Springs. The Federal Road followed the older path 'Three Chopped Way' from Savanah, Georgia to Natchez, Mississippi. It was one of the first mail routes and was the first road through Alabama. (This information from rootsweb)
Jasper is one of ten counties in Mississippi that has two county seats and so two courthouses.
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Lbhe Tebhaqrq [Be Stealthy]