Old Federal Road - GHM 058-1 – Forsyth Co., GA.
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N 34° 16.296 W 084° 06.060
16S E 766903 N 3796075
Old Federal Road State Historical Marker located on the west side of GA 9 (Old US 19) at the intersect with GA 369 at Coal Mountain. The marker is in the south west corner of the intersection.
Waymark Code: WM2F0F
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2007
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OLD FEDERAL ROAD
The highway crossing east and west at this intersection is the Old Federal Road, first vehicular way and postal route west of the Chattahoochee. Beginning to the east on the Hall ~ Jackson county line, it linked Georgia and Tennessee across the Cherokee Nation.
Rights to use the route were granted informally by the Indians in 1803 and formally in 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee.
Prior to that time the trace served as a trading path from August to the Cherokees of northwest Georgia and the southeast Tennessee.
GHM 058-1 - Georgia Historical Commission - 1954