Mississippi Business Journal » national park http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Trace to celebrate its 75th ‘birthday’ this weekend http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/14/trace-to-celebrate-its-75th-birthday-this-weekend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trace-to-celebrate-its-75th-birthday-this-weekend http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/14/trace-to-celebrate-its-75th-birthday-this-weekend/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 12:17:39 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74731 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 [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/14/trace-to-celebrate-its-75th-birthday-this-weekend/feed/ 0 Report: Visitors spent $93M along Natchez Trace http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/28/natchez-trace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=natchez-trace http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/28/natchez-trace/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:57:58 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=70540 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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