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Chickasaw Council House
Natchez Trace
Chickasaw Council House is located on the Natchez Trace Parkway at milepost 251.1.
Westerly on the Natchez Trace stood an Indian village, Pontatock, with its council house, which in the 1820s became the capitol of the Chickasaw Nation. The chiefs and the head men met there to sign treaties or to establish tribal laws and policies. Each summer 2,000 or 3,000 Indians camped nearby to receive an annual payment for lands they had 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 that went west with the Chickasaw as a county and village in Oklahoma.
Locator Map for Chickasaw Council House and other Natchez Trace points of interest!
Click on these nearby points of interest:
1 Confederate Gravesites and Old Trace
2 A Lazy Dog Ranch Bed and Breakfast
3 Tupelo Visitors Center
4 Old Town Overlook
5 Chickasaw Village Site
6 Elvis Presley Birthplace
7 Tupelo Automobile Museum
8 Tupelo, Mississippi
9 Tupelo National Battlefield
10 Black Belt Overlook
* Chickasaw Council House
11 Tockshish
12 Monroe Mission
13 Owl Creek Mounds
14 Davis Lake Recreation Area
15 Hernando de Soto
16 Chickasaw Agency
17 Witch Dance
18 Houston, Mississippi
19 Bridges-Hall Manor Bed and Breakfast
20 Bynum Mounds
Color Key:
* Chickasaw Council House
Bed and Breakfasts located nearby
On Trace Attractions located nearby
Other Attractions located nearby
Area Towns & Cities
1 Confederate Gravesites and Old Trace
2 A Lazy Dog Ranch Bed and Breakfast
3 Tupelo Visitors Center
4 Old Town Overlook
5 Chickasaw Village Site
6 Elvis Presley Birthplace
7 Tupelo Automobile Museum
8 Tupelo, Mississippi
9 Tupelo National Battlefield
10 Black Belt Overlook
* Chickasaw Council House
11 Tockshish
12 Monroe Mission
13 Owl Creek Mounds
14 Davis Lake Recreation Area
15 Hernando de Soto
16 Chickasaw Agency
17 Witch Dance
18 Houston, Mississippi
19 Bridges-Hall Manor Bed and Breakfast
20 Bynum Mounds
Color Key:
* Chickasaw Council House
Bed and Breakfasts located nearby
On Trace Attractions located nearby
Other Attractions located nearby
Area Towns & Cities
