The After General Andrew Jackson’s victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815 and at the close of the war with Great Britain, some of his soldiers returned to their homes in Tennessee over the Natchez Trace. Originally a forest path, the 500 mile road, first beaten through the wilderness by buffalo, then by Indians, frontiersmen, armies and settlers, extended from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi.

Among Jackson’s troops was a soldier who carried some pecan (Carya illinoensis) nuts home from Louisiana. When he camped overnight at what is now Natchez Trace State Forest, he met a girl named Sukie Morris, who lived nearby. The soldier gave her some of the pecans, which she planted. One of them grew to become the Natchez Trace Pecan, at one time the largest documented pecan tree in the United States.The old pecan stands on the Camden Road, in rural Carroll County, 5 miles north of exit 116 on I-40 (west of Nashville) in the Natchez Trace State Forest. The forest is managed by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry, and signs and markers provide directions to the tree. The tree is over 183 years old and is in poor health.Originally nominated and researched by Gene Hyde.

Entered into the Landmark & Historic Tree Register in 1998 as a historic tree.