CHICKASAW INDIAN TRAIL

This one-sixteenth section of the remaining Chickasaw Trail, located along Tchulahoma Road, which means “Red Fox” in the Chickasaw language, is one of the last surviving remnants of the famous trail which was used by the Native American Chickasaw People.  The Chickasaw People inhabited this area for thousands of years, followed by European-American settlers who entered into trade with the Chickasaw from the late 1700s onward, which included a Chickasaw Trading Post that served as a major means of commerce until the early 1830s.  This trail dates to the early 1800s and is located on the former Bridgforth property owned by that pioneering family.  A corn crib on this property was dated to 1814, now the Chapel at nearby Spitfire Acres, making this log-hewn structure one of the oldest existing structures in DeSoto County.  

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