In 1792, a French Canadian named Louis Le Fleur established a trading post on the banks of the Pearl River called Le Fleur's Bluff, where people traveled through the Old Natchez Trace to the Southwest. The Natchez Trace Parkway runs from Nashville to Natchez and is now a scenic highway manicured by the National Park Service. Later in 1821, the legislature for Mississippi chose Le Fleur's Bluff as the state's capital and then renamed to honor the nation's 7th president, Major General Andrew Jackson. Since then the city of Jackson has almost been destroyed by fire twice in the Civil War by Union forces. It once was burned in the July of 1863, when General William Tecumseh Sherman set Jackson on fire and the city earned a rueful nickname "Chimneyville." The Old Capitol is now a historical museum and shows the early history of the state. Other museums to visit in the city are the Jim Buck Ross Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, the Oaks House Museum, and the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center. Places worth exploring are Battlefield Park, where the Confederate trenches can be seen from the Civil War, the New Capitol, Mynelle Gardens, City Hall, the Jackson Zoological Park, the Manship House, the Govenor's Mansion, headquarters for generals W. T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. Events to see and hear include, the Jackson Zoo Blues at the Jackson Zoological Park on the 1st Saturday in April, the Jubilee Jam on the 3rd weekend in May at One Jackson Place, the Mississippi State Fair, and the Dixie National Livestock Show shows in February for the first 3 weeks. Today Jackson is Mississippi's largest city and is a major distribution center for Mississippi's metropolis.