Old Federal Road - GHM 023-6 - Catoosa Co., GA - Georgia Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Old Federal Road

For the last eight miles this highway has followed closely the course of the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia's earliest vehicular thoroughfare and first postal route. It led this way from the southeast Cherokee boundary, in the direction of Athens, Georgia, via Tate, Talking Rock, Spring Place and Ringgold, running toward Nashville, Tennessee. The Indians granted formal rights to open the trace in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee. Another prong of the route led from Ramhurst, toward Knoxville, Tenn.

At this point the old route bore left toward Rossville, passing just south of the road intersection ahead. (US 41 about one mile southeast of Pine Grove Church.)

GHM 023-6 Georgia Historic Marker 1992

Old Federal Road

Type of Marker: Highway Marker #: GHM 023-6 Date: 1992 Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission

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