Mount Locust: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Natchez Trace Parkway, National Park Service
Hitchcock S. 2022. Mount Locust: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Natchez Trace Parkway, National Park Service. NPS Cultural Landscapes Program. Atlanta, Georgia
This cultural landscape inventory (CLI) has been adapted from "Mount Locust Cultural Landscape Report" (Susan Hitchcock, 2009). Mount Locust is a historic vernacular landscape located within the right-of-way of the Natchez Trace Parkway (NATR), significant under Criterion A. The National Park Service (NPS) acquired Mount Locust as part of the Natchez Trace Parkway (NATR) right-of-way in 1937. Mount Locust is the only surviving inn of the more than fifty that stood along the Natchez Trace from the late 1700s through the mid-1820s. Mount Locust is also one of the oldest surviving structures in the state of Mississippi and predates many of the antebellum properties in nearby Natchez. The CLI uses the existing CLR and current documentation, including photographs, to document the historical development of landscape characteristics and associated features, materials, and qualities that make a landscape eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The site history and analysis and evaluation sections identify the historical values associated with the landscape, document extant landscape characteristics and features, and define the significance and integrity of the landscape.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Hitchcock, Susan
- Date of Issue
- 2022
- Publisher
- NPS Cultural Landscapes Program
- Units
- NATR
- Keywords
- Chamberlain, cultural landscape, Ferguson, house, inn, Mount Locust, Natchez, Natchez Trace, parkway, Paulina Ferguson, stand, Thomas Jefferson Chamberlain