Springfield

Andrew and Rachel Jackson said they were married in the Natchez District in 1791, and Springfield is where the story places the wedding, with Thomas Green as magistrate. No document of any ceremony there has turned up. Rachel had left Lewis Robards, who filed for divorce in December 1790; it was granted for adultery in September 1793, and the couple married in Tennessee on January 18, 1794. The gap was used against them in the 1828 presidential campaign, when Rachel was accused of bigamy. Jackson, then a young lawyer, was in the district trading horses and slaves.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Locust — 4.6 mi
  A 1780s Natchez Trace inn and cotton farm at milepost 15.5, with an enslaved people's cemetery of 43 graves and a brick kiln behind the house.
• Emerald Mound — 8.7 mi
  The second-largest Mississippian ceremonial mound in the country, beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, built by ancestors of the Natchez and kept from climbing at the request of tribes.
• Alcorn State University and Oakland Memorial Chapel — 9.0 mi
  The 1871 Reconstruction college on the old Oakland College campus, first led by Hiram Revels, with the 1838 chapel built by Black craftsmen.
• Windsor Ruins — 13 mi
  Twenty-three standing Corinthian columns left by an 1890 fire, the largest antebellum mansion in Mississippi, built with enslaved labor on a 2,600-acre cotton plantation.

More markers nearby

• Old Greenville — 2.9 mi
• Church Hill — 3.8 mi
• Salem Church, Cole's Creek — 7.3 mi
• Rodney Presbyterian Church — 7.7 mi