Seven segments of the historic Natchez Trace are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Also there are additional NRHP-listed structures and other sites along the Natchez Trace, which served the travelers of the trace and survive from the era of its active use.
One segment within Tennessee is named simply "Old Natchez Trace". Additionally, several segments in Mississippi and Alabama are listed with the name "Old Natchez Trace", followed by a secondary identifier in parentheses or by an additional name. These listings are:
| Old Natchez Trace | |
| Added: | May 30, 1975 |
| Refnum: | 75002125 |
| Old Natchez Trace (132-3T) | |
| Nearest City: | Port Gibson, Mississippi |
| Coordinates: | 32.0028°N -90.8961°W |
| Built: | 1801 |
| Added: | November 7, 1976 |
| Refnum: | 76000161 |
Old Natchez Trace (132-3T), located northeast of Port Gibson in Claiborne County, Mississippi, about 0.7 miles north of the Mangum Mound Site at milepost 45.7. The site is also known as the Grindstone Ford. It is an original segment of the Natchez Trace.[1] The British traveler Francis Bailey described it in his journal of 1797, "...about sundown got to Grindstone Ford. This is the principal branch of the Bayou Pierre, and is situated about fifty or sixty miles from its mouth. The settlements about are not very numerous. There was formerly a mill built across the stream ; but, owing to a curious circumstance, this has shared the fate of all other water-mills in the country: for it must be observed that there are a great many crayfish hereabouts, and these animals undermine all the dams which have ever been built, and soon make a vent for the water, which terminates in the total destruction of the dam. This place is situated about sixty miles from Natchez, and is the most northern frontier settlement in the district. From this place, then, we have to date our departure into the wilderness; and here we have to bid adieu to all marks of civilization till we arrive at the borders of the Cumberland river, in the state of Tennessee, a distance of about six hundred miles."[2]
The presence of the Natchez Road figured in the May 1, 1863 Battle of Port Gibson. In that battle, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant's command, having crossed from the Louisiana side of the Mississippi, below Vicksburg, fought their way through a determined resistance by Confederate forces which at first bottled them up. The Natchez Road was not located by the Union forces early in the battle. Confederate General Bowen was concerned throughout the day's battle that Union forces would locate the Natchez Road and march directly upon Port Gibson, around Bowen's flank. Bowen committed forces to attack the much larger Union forces in order to prevent them from finding it. Eventually increasing numbers of Union troops threatened to overwhelm the Confederate forces and retreat was ordered, apparently without any flanking action along the Natchez Road taking place. The Union troops occupied Port Gibson on May 2.
| Old Natchez Trace (170-30) | |
| Nearest City: | Ridgeland, Mississippi |
| Coordinates: | 32.4242°N -90.0886°W |
| Built: | 1801 |
| Added: | November 7, 1976 |
| Refnum: | 76000160 |
Old Natchez Trace (170-30), a 0.4acres area listed in 1976. It preserves two separate remnants of the old Trace near milepost 104.5 and includes the site of Brashears' Stand, an inn operated by Turner Brashears from 1806 on.[3] It is located just outside the eastern city limits of Ridgeland, Mississippi.
| Old Natchez Trace (212-3K 213-3K) | |
| Nearest City: | Kosciusko, Mississippi |
| Coordinates: | 33.2128°N -89.4531°W |
| Built: | 1735 |
| Added: | November 7, 1976 |
| Refnum: | 76000203 |
Old Natchez Trace (212-3K 213-3K), located northeast of Kosciusko in Attala County, Mississippi, near milepost 174.
| Old Natchez Trace (230-3H) | |
| Nearest City: | Mathiston, Mississippi |
| Coordinates: | 33.4756°N -89.2011°W |
| Built: | 1801 |
| Added: | November 7, 1976 |
| Refnum: | 76000159 |
Old Natchez Trace (230-3H), located southwest of Mathiston in Choctaw County, Mississippi, near milepost 199. It is located south of Mathiston at Natchez Trace Parkway milepost 198. It is a segment of the Natchez Trace located at a Natchez Trace Parkway interpretive stop.[4]
| Old Natchez Trace (310-2A) | |
| Nearest City: | Florence, Alabama |
| Coordinates: | 34.9253°N -87.8444°W |
| Built: | 1801 |
| Added: | November 7, 1976 |
| Refnum: | 76000156 |
Old Natchez Trace (310-2A), a 0.86acres area listed in 1976 located 15 miles northwest of Florence, Alabama, off Alabama State Route 20 near milepost 336. It preserves a 400-foot section of the old Natchez Trace that had not been paved as of the mid-1970s, and an 850-foot section that has been paved. The paved portion is part of Lauderdale County's County Route 5. The location is near to, and just southeast of, the Little Zion Church and the Cloverdale School, which in turn are south of the hamlet of Threet, Alabama. Beyond the listed segment, the construction of Highway 20 "obliterated" evidence of the historic Natchez Trace.[5]
| Old Natchez Trace and Choctaw Agency Site | |
| Nearest City: | Ridgeland, Mississippi |
| Coordinates: | 32.4267°N -90.1769°W |
| Built: | 1801 |
| Added: | December 15, 1994 |
| Refnum: | 94001579 |
Old Natchez Trace and Choctaw Agency Site, in Ridgeland, Mississippi located at milepost 100.7. This is located between Interstate 55 and Livingston Rd., west of Ridgeland, in Madison County, Mississippi. It includes a 3.3-mile segment of the Natchez Trace (partially in the Natchez Trace Parkway right of way) and an archeological investigation site at the location that from 1811 to 1823 housed a government agency to the Choctaw.[6]
Also there are additional NRHP-listed structures and other sites along the Natchez Trace. These include: