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Photo Gallery: Old Federal Road (US-41 at Pine Grove
Church)
Marker text:
For the last eight miles this highway has followed closely the course of the
Old Federal Road northwest Georgia's earliest vehicular thoroughfare and
first postal route. It led this way from the southeast Cherokee boundry, in
the direction of Athens, Georgia, via Tate, Talking Rock, Spring Place and
Ringgold, running toward Nashville, Tennessee. The Indians granted formal
rights to open the trace in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee. Another
prong of the route led from Ramhurst, toward Knoxville, Tenn.
At this point the old route bore left toward Rossville,
passing just south of the road intersection ahead.
023-8 Georgia Historic Marker 1992
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