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Wooden boardwalk through cypress swamp with water and trees – Vintage Wall Art

Wooden boardwalk through cypress swamp with water and trees — historic image
Wooden boardwalk through cypress swamp with water and trees. 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.)

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Wooden boardwalk through cypress swamp with water and trees comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Wooden boardwalk through cypress swamp with water and trees

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A wooden boardwalk running over dark swamp water and cypress trunks is the kind of scene that gives the Natchez Trace Parkway its character, since the road was built to follow an old footpath through Mississippi and Tennessee. Routes like this one were worn into the land first by Native American peoples and later by travelers on foot, horseback and flatboat, and the parkway that replaced them was laid out to keep the traveler close to the natural landscape. Boardwalks such as this allow visitors to walk among the bottomland trees without disturbing the wetland beneath them, and they are a good place to notice how the cypress knees and still water shape the forest floor.

Original scan3,800 × 4,833 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference218286cu

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