"In January of 1819 the cession of West Tennessee was ratified by Congress."
"...petitions had been sent to the Legislature praying the levy of a tax for the improvement of all the rivers to make them available as highways to the Mississippi."
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| Fort Massac In 2018 |
"There were but two 'traces' at this time in the Purchase, one of these passed near the site of Somerville over to what is now Haywood county, and so on, to Fort Massac in Illinois; another was the Natchez trace, which partly skirted the southern boundary of the State."
"Besides these a military road had been opened by the United States and passed through the Purchase in a southwesterly direction."Source: History of the City of Memphis]
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