Site: Utoy Post Office On Old Sandtown Rd. - GHM 060-165 - Fulton Co., GA
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N 33° 43.389 W 084° 30.134
16S E 731437 N 3734261
Site: Utoy Post Office On Old Sandtown Rd. historic marker located at Cascade Rd at east side of I-285 junction.
Waymark Code: WM3ZBP
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/10/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member GA Cacher
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Site: Utoy Post Office On Old Sandtown Rd.


Est. March l836; discontinued July 7, 1866; a stop on the Decatur, Marthasville (Atlanta) White Hall & Sandtown stagecoach route in intervening years; also a landmark in the movement of Federal troops from the Atlanta siege lines to Red Oak and Jonesboro to cut the West Point and Macon railroads, in 1864.

August 26. Stanley's 4th A. C. (Army of the Cumberland), having left positions N. of the city on the 25th, camped here on South Fork of Utoy Creek. Aug. 27. The corps marched toward Red Oak via Ben Hill to its next bivouac at and below Mt. Gilead Church near the Camp Creek crossing.

GHM 060-165 - GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION - 1990

Type of Marker: Highway

Marker #: GHM 060-165

Date: 1990

Sponsor: Not listed
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