Something to Chew on

Historical marker location:

Cherokee, Alabama

( Marker is on Natchez Trace Access Road (at milepost 320.3), 0.4 miles north of Natchez Trace Parkway.)

Natchez Trace Parkway. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

The city of Tuskegee, Alabama is the birthplace of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military pilots. During World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen were trained at the Tuskegee Institute and went on to fly over 1,500 missions in the war.