Robinson Road (Mississippi)

[3] The Robinson Road was designated as a mail route in 1822, which diverted northern Mississippi traffic from the Natchez Trace.

[4] The United States government appropriated funds to improve Robinson Road in 1823, as did the Mississippi Legislature in 1824, as the road served as the only contemporary route that connected Jackson to settlements along the Tombigbee River.

It left the old Natchez and Nashville Trace in the northeastern corner of Madison County and passed diagonally across what is now Leake, Winston, and Oktibbeha Counties, until it intersected, near Columbus, the military road leading from Florence, on the Tennessee River, to New Orleans.

"[5] One of the daughters of the mixed-race LeFlore family "married a white man by the name of Wilson, who kept a good eating and lodging house on the Robison Road.

[6] Portions of the road are on the National Register of Historic Places in Winston[7] and Leake[8] counties.