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Natchez Trace Parkway

A 7 day trip, travelling to Madison, Tupelo, Jackson, Natchez, Port …
Dragging Terry, kicking and screaming, on a vacation with … More  
Dragging Terry, kicking and screaming, on a vacation with just little ole me ... okay, okay, his momma, too
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Day 1 - Madison, Tupelo


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Madison, Tn
Day 1 8:00am - Day 1 9:00am
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Had breakfast here
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This long and historic roadway stretches some 400 miles between Nashville, Tennessee, and Natchez, Mississippi. The …
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Natchez Trace Parkway
2680 Natchez Trace Pky
Tupelo, MS 38804-9715
United States
+1 662 680 4033 / +1 800 305 7417
Day 1 8:00am - Day 2 7:00pm
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This Comfort Inn is approximately six miles from Lemons Municipal Airport and 64 miles from Golden Triangle Airport …
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Comfort Inn Tupelo
1190 N Gloster St
Tupelo, MS 38801
United States
662-842-5100
Day 1 6:00pm - Day 2 7:00am
Notes
Nice place to stay the hotel clerks were very nice
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Day 2 - Jackson, Natchez

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At Sonny's, you'll always enjoy authentic southern Bar-B-Q at its best. Always tender, always juicy. But great …
Restaurant
2603 Highway 80 W
Jackson, MS 39204
United States
(601) 355-7434
Day 2 2:00pm - Day 2 3:00pm
Notes
had a wonderful lunch here and then continued our trip
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Hotel
Natchez, Ms
Day 2 6:00pm - Day 3 7:00am
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The service is out of this world. Miss Wendy we love you.
You were so wonderful to us and got us into the room overlooking the river and the Mississippi bridge. Thank you, Thank you, thank you.
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Day 3 - Natchez, Port Gibson, Vicksburg

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26 N Seargent Prentiss Dr
Natchez, MS 39120
United States
(601) 442-3761
Day 3 7:00am - Day 3 8:00am
Notes
I would not recommend this as aplace to eat. Food was like any other Shoney's but the coffee could get up and walk away by itself
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Narrated motorcoach tour of over 50 antebellum houses and churches throughout this river city. The tour departs …
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640 S Canal St
Natchez, MS 39120-3879
United States
601-446-6345,800-647-6724
Day 3 9:00am - Day 3 10:00am
Notes
drove over and back across the Miss bridge, then stopped at the welcome center where we purchase tickets to 3 of the houses, after that we did the scenic tour before going to Magnolia Hall, then Longwood and lastly Melrose
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Magnolia Hall was the last great mansion built before the Civil War. It is a very fine example of Greek Revival …
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215 S Pearl St
Natchez, MS 39120-3420
United States
601-442-6672
Day 3 10:00am - Day 3 11:00am
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beautiful house the tour guide was very nice and did a good job of answering questions also told of some of the things to do in the spring and fall if we visit then
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Longwoods' completion was halted by the Civil War, but what was completed is truly amazing. Its octagonal shape …
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140 Lower Woodville Rd
Natchez, MS 39120-4412
United States
Day 3 11:00am - Day 3 12:00pm
Notes
It was really neat to see what the family had started and you could imagine what the house would have looked like if it had ever been completed tour guide was really good
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Melrose is the most intact Antebellum estate in the nation. Owned by the National Park Service, the home still has i …
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1 Melrose Montebello Pky
Natchez, MS 39120-4715
United States
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Day 3 1:00pm - Day 3 2:00pm
Notes
now we're talking it's an old house
the wallpaper in the son's bedroom is to die for it is said the owner's wife picked it out for the son's new bride
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Civil War battle site, museum, and original fortifications where General U.S. Grant tried to land his troops for …
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12006 Grand Gulf Rd
Port Gibson, MS 39150-4549
United States
601-437-5911
Day 3 3:00pm - Day 3 4:00pm
Notes
this was really cool the drive through the park seeing the museaum and then driving over to see the river
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Only 23 columns remain of what once was a grand home destroyed by a fire in 1890. There were 29, 45-foot columns sup …
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17001 Rodney Rd
Port Gibson, MS 39150-3079
United States
601-437-4351
Day 3 4:00pm - Day 3 4:30pm
Notes
I know it's in ruins but I wanna see it anyway

when we finally found it it was amaging set back in the woods are all these really beautiful columns you can just imagine the workmanship that went into them
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The park was established by Congress in 1899, to commemorate one of the most decisive battles of the American Civil …
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Clay Street @ I-20, Exit 4
Vicksburg, MS 39183
United States
601-636-0583 ext. 8023
Day 3 6:00pm - Day 3 7:00pm
Notes
drove around the park ollking at all the monuments to the union as well as the confederate soldiers
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Not to be missed! See the Civil War gunboat and the numerous artifacts recovered from it when raised from the bed of …
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Vicksburg National Military Park
Vicksburg, MS 39183
United States
601-636-2199
Day 3
Notes
Be very jealous, Joe , be very jealous!!


got there just after it closed so all we got to do was take a couple of pictures

would have walked closer to it but Terry honked the horn at me and scared me half to death
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The 16-mile tour of the Vicksburg National Military Park and a visit to the U.S.S. Cairo Museum are musts for …
Hotel
Courtyard by Marriott Vicksburg
1 Underwood Dr
Vicksburg, MS 39180
United States
601-636-8788
Day 3 7:00pm - Day 4 6:00am
Notes
Great room went to Cracker Barrel for dinner then retired for the night
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Day 4 - Memphis

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This is it—the second most visited house in the United States—preserved exactly as when Elvis Presley lived here, co …
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Graceland
3734 Elvis Presley Blvd
Memphis, TN 38116-4106
United States
+1 901 322 3322
Day 4 10:00am - Day 4 1:00pm
Notes
I am gonna make a copy of Mom's picture and tape it to the outside wall. Then she can tell all the other Elvis fans in heaven that she has been to Graceland.

What a disapointment it was
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