Posts Tagged ‘national park’

Trace to celebrate its 75th ‘birthday’ this weekend

by Associated Press Published: May 14,2013

Tags: cultural tourism, culture, Heritage, historic, history, national park, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Saturday marks the paradoxical 75th anniversary of one of Natchez’s oldest connections with civilization. The National Park Service will mark this weekend the day (May 18) in 1938 when the NPS assumed control of the historic Old Natchez Road — today known as the Natchez Trace Parkway — and began turning the [...] [...]

Report: Visitors spent $93M along Natchez Trace

by MBJ Staff Published: February 28,2013

Tags: culture, Heritage, history, national park, roadway, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor

TUPELO — A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that 5.7 million recreational visitors to the Natchez Trace Parkway spent $93 million in the communities surrounding the Park. This spending supported over 1,200 jobs in the local area. The statistical information for the Parkway is part of a peer-reviewed spending analysis of [...] [...]

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