News Release
You are viewing ARCHIVED content published online before January 20, 2025.
Please note that this content is NOT UPDATED, and links may not work. For current information,
visit https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/news/index.htm.
(NPS Photo)
News Release Date: April 26, 2018
As part of a multi-year project, SEAC archeologists will be returning to Mount Locust, one of the oldest structures in Mississippi (built ca. 1785), along the Natchez Trace Parkway (NATR) to conduct a geophysical survey. This structure, which still stands today, functioned as an inn along the Old Natchez Trace and later a frontier plantation. In addition, there is an oral history that the site once had a cabin complex of enslaved African American workers and a nursery for their children. However, there are no written records and are no cabins are left standing today. From May 1 – 5 th SEAC will be actively searching for physical evidence of these cabins using ground penetrating radar, magnetometer, conductivity and resistivity instruments, coupled with a metal detector survey.Last updated: August 30, 2019