The Gaines Trace was a road in the Mississippi Territory. It was constructed in 1811 and 1812 from the Tennessee River (opposite the Elk River's mouth) to Cotton Gin Port on the upper Tombigbee River and on to Fort Stoddert on the lower Tombigbee.

Gaines Trace was laid out as an early road along the Chickasaw trail that crossed the Tombigbee at the cotton gin. In 1816, the Chickasaws ceded their territory East of the Tombigbee and south of Gaines Trace to America, so on the U. S. township and range survey maps you can see exactly where Cotton Gin Port was located.

2018年3月16日 · The Gaines Trace was a road in the Mississippi Territory. It was constructed in 1811 and 1812 from the Tennessee River (opposite the Elk River's mouth) near present day Decatur, Georgia to Cotton Gin Port on the upper Tombigbee River near Amory, Mississippi.

2021年5月24日 · It is located on the Gaines Trace Road which was surveyed by E. P. Gaines in 1807, at the request of President Thomas Jefferson. Gaines Trace was a major route for settlers who migrated from the northeast.

2021年4月22日 · Gaines Road, – The Gaines Trace was a road in the Mississippi Territory. It was constructed in 1811 and 1812 from the Tennessee River (opposite the Elk River’s mouth) to Cotton Gin Port on the upper Tombigbee River and on to Fort Stoddert on the lower Tombigbee.

2022年7月10日 · Edmund Pendleton Gaines began work on the road that would bear his name on December 26, 1807. Gaines' Trace extended from Melton's Bluff, at the head of the Elk River shoals, to Cotton Gin Port on the Tombigee River in present-day Mississippi. Lawrence Street follows part of the route through town.

2009年8月23日 · Tennessee Street along the north side of the square was originally part of Gaines’ Trace, a horse path laid out in 1807 under the direction of Capt. Edmund Pendleton Gaines of the U. S. Army. From Melton’s Bluff on the Tennessee River, the trace ran westward to Cotton Gin Port on the Tombigbee, in present-day Mississippi.

The earliest road into the Marion region was Gaines’ Trace built between 1807 and 1810 by Indian Agents and Federal Troops to connect Tennessee with the Tombigbee and the coastal Mobile, Alabama, area.

The Port had long been a stopping place for adventurers, rowdies, and petty villains along the Trace. One of the South's most infamous desperadoes, noted for horse theft, robbery, and slave trade, John Murrel, is said to have hung out along Weaver's Creek.

The Gaines Trace was a road in the Mississippi Territory. It was constructed in 1811 and 1812 from the Tennessee River (near Muscle Shoals) to Cotton Gin Port on the upper Tombigbee River and on to Fort Stoddert on the lower Tombigbee.