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Chickasaw Council House
Mile Post 251.1 |
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Chickasaw Council House
Located At This Stop Picnic Area Distance to Nearest Parkway Restroom 14.9 Miles North to Parkway Visitor Center 17.9 Miles South to Witch Dance Distance to Nearest Gas Stations 4.0 Miles North to Palmeto Rd Then 0.9 Miles East 46.8 Miles South to MS Hwy 82 Then 0.1 Miles East |
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Chickasaw Council House The site of the Council House followed the main route of the Natchez Trace. The trail was to the west and ran near the current town of Pontotoc, Mississippi. The text on the sign reads: Westerly on the Natchez Trace stood and Indian Village “Pontatock” with its council house which in the 1820’s, became the “Capitol” of the Chickasaw Nation. The chiefs and headmen met there to sign treaties or to establish tribal laws and policies. Each summer two or three thousand Indians camped nearby to receive the annual payments for lands they ad sold to our Federal Government. After the treaty of 1832, the last land was surrendered. The Council House disappeared, but its memory remains here in the names of a Mississippi county and town and went west with the Chickasaws as a county and village in Oklahoma. (National Park Service) |
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Chickasaw Council House
Mile Post 251.1 |
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