Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that the Natchez Trace has always been a multipurpose road?

A.
However, use of the Natchez Trace slowed in the 1830s with the invention of the steamboat, which
could quickly carry people and goods up and down rivers

B.
However, the original Trace, of which some parts can still be traveled by foot, was a rough path carved
through the forest and swamps of the South.

C. Merchants would travel down waterways on boats, sell all their goods at markets in cities like Natchez,
including their boats, and then travel back home using the Natchez Trace.

D.
The road begins in Natchez, Mississippi and ends in Nashville, Tennessee.