Line Creek

Line Creek, which the Natchez Trace Parkway crosses in Webster County, is the stream the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations came to accept as the dividing line between their lands. The National Park Service notes that neither nation usually drew exact boundaries, but the valley held as the line until both peoples were removed west in the 1830s. The creek has since been partly rerouted into a modern drainage canal and keeps its name. A stand once stood near the crossing, kept by Noah Wall and his Choctaw wife, who gave food and shelter to travellers on the Natchez Trace. The same ground turns up in treaty language. On 31 August 1830, at Franklin, Tennessee, commissioners John Eaton and John Coffee drew up a treaty under which the Chickasaw would cede their land east of the Mississippi.

It described their southern line as running up Tibbee Creek to a marked tree on the old Natchez road, about one mile southward from Wall's old place, and from there west along the Choctaw boundary to the Mississippi River. That treaty was never ratified, and the Chickasaw cession came instead at Pontotoc Creek in 1832.

Four weeks after Franklin, the supplementary articles to the Choctaw Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, signed on 28 September 1830, named a Noah Wall among the people allowed a reservation of a section and a half of land.