The Natchez Trace at Lee County was a stage on the route of this first high-road through Mississippi, over which many of the older Southern states' best population moved in search of homes in the Southwest. After the Treaty of Pontotoc on Oct. 20, 1832, between the American government and the Chickasaw Indians, settlers came into the Chickasaw lands. Near this spot, Bienville fought the Battle of Ackia against the Chickasaw Indians on May 26, 1736, where they repulsed him in a fierce clash remembered as a defense of faith, home, and native land.
