FIRST -- Postmaster in Rossville, Rossville GA
N 34° 59.032 W 085° 17.186
16S E 656404 N 3872595
A state historic marler commemorating the first postmaster of Rossville GA
Waymark Code: WMWRCJ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/06/2017
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This state historic marker for the Old Federal Road at Lodge No. 397 in Rossville GA preserves the history of the first vehicular and postal route in GA AND the first postmaster of Rossville, who, a Cherokee, would later be removed on the Trail of Tears.
The marker reads as follows:
"Old Federal Road
The first vehicular and postal route of Georgia to Rossville was the Federal Road across the Cherokee Nation. Beginning on the southeast Indian boundary in the directions of Athens, Georgia, the thoroughfare led this way toward Nashville via Tate, Jasper, Talking Rock and Spring Place.
Formal permission by the Cherokees to open the road was granted in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee. Prior to that time the trace served as an Indian trading path to Augusta.
The earliest post office in northwest Georgia was established on this route at Rossville, on April 5, 1817, with John Ross as postmaster."
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 04/05/1817
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