General Carroll's Road

General Carroll's Road was a north-south route through Louisiana and territorial-era lower Mississippi in early 19th-century North America.

The road connected Lake Pontchartrain to the Choctaw Agency, which was located about five miles north of present-day Jackson, Mississippi.

[1] The route was named after William Carroll, and followed an existing route between Madisonville, Louisiana,[2] and Liberty, Mississippi, but the last 125 miles were "blazed out" as a way to get Carroll's men back from the Battle of New Orleans while avoiding Natchez, Mississippi.

[1] Once they reached the Choctaw Agency it was a straight shot back up the Natchez Trace to Tennessee.

[3] The road was never heavily used even its frontier heyday because its original purpose of getting Carroll's men home meant they "paid no attention to grades and stream crossings.