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Pigeon Roost Creek recalls the millions of migrating passenger pigeons that once roosted in trees in this area before the species was completely destroyed. One mile east, where the Natchez Trace crossed the creek, Nathaniel Folsom of New England and his Choctaw wife had a trading post before 1790. Their son David later operated it and accommodated travelers. When the Reverend Thomas Nixon stopped there in 1815, David’s wife “prepared suitable nourishment ... and would have no pay.” David Folsom, a strong supporter of Christianity and Indian education, was elected chief of the Northeast District of the Choctaw Nation in 1826.
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