Three Notch Road - Three Notch, AL
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N 32° 06.412 W 085° 34.694
16S E 634143 N 3553165
Located at the corner of US Highway 82 and County Road 35 in the community of Three Notch, this marker notes the building of a antebellum road thru Alabama.
Waymark Code: WMPRT4
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 10/14/2015
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Marker text:
Side 1
Built by U.S. Army engineers over the summer of 1824, Three Notch Road has served as Bullock County’s major transportation route throughout its history. It was constructed to facilitate military communication between Pensacola in Florida and Ft. Mitchell in Alabama near the Georgia border. The 233-mile path through a virtual wilderness was known as Road No. 6 in official reports, but was known and named locally for the distinctive horizontal notches blazed into trees by advancing surveyors as they marked the route for the builders who followed. Capt. Daniel Burch oversaw construction of the road which was wide enough to allow “carriages, carts, wagons, &c.” and included “substantial wooden bridges” over those streams which were not so wide as to require ferries to cross.
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Three Notch Road was the major thoroughfare for those coming from Georgia into present-day Bullock County when eastern Alabama was opened to American settlement with the removal of the Indians. The road entered the county from the north near Guerryton, crossed the Chunnenuggee Ridge at Enon, and continued south to Ft. Watson, as the community of Three Notch was named before the Central of Georgia Railroad came through. From there the road continued southwest through the communities of Ox Level (by Mallard Chapel), Indian Creek, Blues Old Stand, and Sellers Crossroads before exiting the county on present-day Bullock County Road 19, near the Sandfield community in Pike County.
Marker Name: Three Notch Road
Marker Type: Rural Roadside
Addtional Information::
Erected by the Bullock County Historical Society, Alabama Historical Association.
Another similar marker is located in Blues Old Stand, Alabama at US 29 and County Road 19, about 16 miles South-southwest.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 2011
Marker Number: Not Listed
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