Detail of Baron de Crenay's 1733 map of Louisiana (Charley's Trace is thought to be the red line in center)
Charley's Trace (also spelled Charlie's Trace) is possibly named for a Choctaw trader who operated a steamboat fueling station near Clarksdale in the 1820s.[1] There is some evidence that Hernando de Soto used Charley's Trace to reach the Mississippi River on May 8, 1541.[2] After the Mississippi Territory was open to settlement, Charley's Trace connected to other roads such as Gaines Trace and was used by outlaws who operated in the Mississippi Delta.[3]
Charley's Trace is possibly depicted on the Baron de Crenay's 1733 map of Louisiana.[4] The 1755 Mitchell Map may also depict Charley's Trace (labeled as "Route of Colonel Welch to the Mississippi River in 1698, since followed by our Traders").[5]
A historical marker was placed by the Chakchiuma Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on February 20, 1926. The marker was replaced with a newer one on May 21, 1955. No marker exists at the site today.[6]
Referencesedit
^Brown, James A.; Sasso, Robert F. (2001). "15: Prelude to History on the Eastern Praries". In Brose, David S.; Cowan, C. Wesley; Mainfort, Robert C. Jr. (eds.). Societies in Eclipse: Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 200. ISBN978-0-8173-8339-8.
^Brown, Ian W. (2008). "Chapter 16. Culture Contact Along the I-69 Corridor: Protohistoric and Historic Use of the Northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi". In Rafferty, Janet; Peacock, Evan (eds.). Time's River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 378. ISBN978-0-8173-8112-7.
^Works Progress Administration (1938). Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State. New York, New York: Viking Press. p. 88.
^Elliott, Jack D. Jr. (2006). "Of Roads and Reifications: The Interpretation of Historical Roads and the Soto Entrada". In Galloway, Patricia Kay (ed.). The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "discovery" in the Southeast. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. p. 257. ISBN0-8032-7122-0.
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