Old Federal Road-GHM 023-7-Catoosa Co.,Georgia
Posted by: Sprinterman
N 34° 54.342 W 085° 04.595
16S E 675727 N 3864273
Located Ga 2 just east of US 41 at Tiger Creek
Waymark Code: WM2MT3
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/22/2007
Views: 57
This highway is part of the Old Federal Road, an early thoroughfare that linked Georgia and west Tennessee across the Indian Country. It began on the southeast boundary of the Cherokees, in the direction of Athens, Georgia and led toward Nashville via Rossville. Another branch ran from Ramhurst, Georgia toward Knoxville. Formal permission to open this road was granted by the Cherokees in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico. Prior to its use by the Whites, the route was an Indian trading path to Augusta.
This thoroughfare became the earliest vehicular way of northwest Georgia, the first postal route of this section, and an important emigrant trace to the West.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 023-7
Date: 1986
Sponsor: Not listed
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