Old Coffee Road-GHM 135-2-Thomas Co
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N 30° 50.278 W 083° 58.516
17R E 215422 N 3415434
Locaton Ga 122, Remington Ave at Warren St, Thomasville Georgia
Waymark Code: WM72KG
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/24/2009
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The Old Coffee Road a pioneer postal and vehicular route passed here. Beginning at the Ocmulgee River. Bleow Jacksonville, It rand some 120 miles via todays Lax. Nashville,Cecil Barwick and Thomasville to the Florida Line. The thoroughfare was opened by direction of the State in 1823, under the superintendence of General John Coffee and Thomas Swain. The early route provided a short way from the older middle and easten sections into Southwest Georgia and West Florida. Much of the former course remains in daiy use.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 135-2
Date: 1956
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Comission
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