Old River Road-GHM 051-3-Effingham Co
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Sprinterman
N 32° 22.395 W 081° 10.956
17S E 482822 N 3581823
Ga 275 at the old Ebenezer cemetery
Waymark Code: WMCT26
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/09/2011
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The Old River Road, one of Colonial Georgia´s leading thoroughfares and the first highway to connect Savannah and Augusta, passed here. It was initially opened as a horse path by direction of General Oglethorpe in the 1730´s. During the early years of the Province this route was the longest white man´s way in Georgia. Eventually the trace became one of the ´King´s Roads´ of the Colony. In this section and in several other areas substantial stretches of the old course are now abandoned.
GHM 051-3 Georgia Historical Commission 1956
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 051-3
Date: 1956
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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