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General Carols Road [sic] on the 1819 map by John Melish
"General Carroll's Old Road" on the Indian Land Cessions map of Mississippi, 1898

General Carroll's Road was a pioneer route through Louisiana and territorial-era lower Mississippi that connected Lake Pontchartrain to the Choctaw Agency, which was located about five miles south of present-day Jackson, Mississippi. The route was named after William Carroll, and followed an existing route between Madisonville, Louisiana and Liberty, Mississippi, but the last 125 miles were "blazed out" as a way to get Carroll's men back from the Battle of New Orleans while avoiding Natchez, Mississippi. Once they reached the Choctaw Agency it was a straight shot back down the Natchez Trace to Tennessee. Also known as Carroll's Trace, a fragment was still visible in Copiah County as of 1974. The road was never heavily used even its frontier heyday because "that the Tennessee boys were going home and paid no attention to grades and stream crossings. The Trace goes up and down hills with a 30-degree slope, and it crosses Lick Creek where no road could ever be built to last."

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References

  1. ^ Casey, Powell A. (1974). "Military Roads in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 15 (3): 229–242. ISSN 0024-6816.
  2. ^ "Road for an Army: Carroll's Trace Took Tennessee Boys Home by E. Ray Izard". Clarion-Ledger. 1974-01-30. p. 15. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
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