|
|
Photo Gallery: Old Federal Road (GA-2 at Tiger Creek)
 Marker text:
This highway is part of the Old Federal Road, an early
thoroughfare that linked Georgia and west Tennessee across the Indian
Country. It began on the southeast boundary of the Cherokees, in the
direction of Athens, Georgia and led toward Nashville via Rossville. Another
branch ran from Ramhurst, Georgia toward Knoxville. Formal permission to
open this road was granted by the Cherokees in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico.
Prior to its use by the Whites, the route was an Indian trading path to
Augusta.
This thoroughfare became the earliest
vehicular way of northwest Georgia, the first postal route of this section,
and an important emigrant trace to the West.
023-7 Georgia Historic Marker 1996
|
