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Sunken forest trail with bare trees and fallen leaves – Antique Wall Art

Sunken forest trail with bare trees and fallen leaves — historic image
Sunken forest trail with bare trees and fallen leaves. Historic image from the Natchez Trace Parkway collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

A window into the past: Sunken forest trail with bare trees and fallen leaves, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Sunken forest trail with bare trees and fallen leaves

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The record gives little beyond the title, so I'll stay with what the setting suggests. A sunken forest trail is a path worn below the level of the land around it, often by generations of foot and wagon traffic, and that is the kind of old road the Natchez Trace Parkway preserves. The Trace began as a network of Native American and frontier paths linking Middle Tennessee to the Mississippi River near Natchez, and later served as a post road for travelers, traders and drovers. Bare trees and a carpet of fallen leaves point to late autumn or winter, when the corridor is most open and the depressed path is easiest to read as a worn route through the woods.

Original scan4,807 × 3,792 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
Reference218284cu

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