Old Federal Road , South of Jasper, GA
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N 34° 27.301 W 084° 24.481
16S E 738109 N 3815657
Old Federal Road on HWY 53 3 miles north of Tate at Jasper City Limits.
Waymark Code: WM22FF
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/24/2007
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There are many titles Old Federal Road placed along the route. Each one has a bit of history on that location.
Old Federal Road
This highway from Tate to Talking Rock
follows substantially the course of the
old Federal Road. The earliest thoroughfares to link
Georgia and Tennessee across the Cherokee Nation.
Permission to use the way was granted informally by
the Indians in 1803 and formally by the 1803 Treaty
of Tellico Tenn. The Federal Road was the first
vehicular thoroughfare west of the Chattahoochee,
the earliest postal route of this section of the state
and a leading emigrant trace to Tennessee and North Alabama.
Kentucky and Tennessee stock man drove animals down this
artery to Southern markets.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 112-3B
Date: 1954
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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