Natchez Trace Parkway - Hohenwald | Summertown, Tennessee

This 21 mile section of the Natchez Trace Parkway  in the Hohenwald | Summertown, Tennessee area goes from milepost 391 (intersection with US 421) to milepost 370 (intersection with US 64).

Traveling south to north you will encounter several sites that are part of the Natchez Trace Parkway and are overseen by the National Park Service:

• Old Trace Drive
  A 2.5 mile of the original Old Natchez Trace has been graded into a one-way road that parallels the modern parkway.
• Jacks Branch
  From the parking area, a stone walkway takes you down into the valley next to Jacks Branch. Several picnic tables and grills await under the shade of tall trees.
• Napier Mine
  Napier Mine was an open pit mine in the 1820s and 1830s. The mine provided most of the ore for the nearby iron making operations.
• Metal Ford and Buffalo River
  At this location travelers on the Old Natchez Trace crossed the Buffalo River which was fordable except after heavy rains. The ford takes its name from its stone bottom, which reminded frontier travelers of stone-surfaced or “metaled” roads of the day.
• Meriwether Lewis
  Meriwether Lewis (1774 to 1809), captain in The United States Army, Private Secretary to President Jefferson, senior Commander of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Governor of the Territory of Louisiana, tragically and mysteriously died on October 11, 1809 at the Grinder House here on the Old Natchez Trace. His body is buried under a monument erected in 1848 by the State of Tennessee.

For additional pictures, information and interactive maps of the Hohenwald | Summertown, Tennessee section of the Trace please see NatchezTraceTravel.com.

Also, just off the Trace you will find:

• Hohenwald, Tennessee
  Hohenwald, the county seat of Lewis County, is located in Middle Tennessee about 8 miles west of the Natchez Trace Parkway.

There are several bed and breakfast and cabin opportunities in the Hohenwald / Linden / Hampshire area.

Next section north on the Trace: Centerville | Columbia
Next section south on the Trace: Waynesboro | Collinwood