Historic Highways-GHM-150-10-Washington Co
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Sprinterman
N 32° 52.365 W 082° 34.507
17S E 352640 N 3638279
Ga 242 at mile marker 19, 6 miles SE of Riddleville
Waymark Code: WM6DT5
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 05/18/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member ChapterhouseInc
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This highway is the Old Savannah Road, one of the earliest vehicular routes west of the Ogeechee. It led from Savannah to the Rock Landing on the Oconee, below Milledgeville, along the course of a former trading path to the Creek Indians. The lower part of this way was opened about 1777. At about this point, the Savannah Road was intersected by the Sunbury Road, which was laid out in the early 1790`s between Greensboro and Sunbury, a port on the Midway River in Liberty County. The present boundary between Jefferson and Johnson Counties follows its former course. From northern Emanuel County southward, much of the Sunbury Road remains in use.
Type of Marker: Highway

Marker #: 150-10

Date: 1956

Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION

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