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Photo Gallery: Old Federal Road
Marker text:
The highway crossing east and west at this intersection is
the Old Federal Road, first vehicular way and earliest postal route west of
the Chattahoochee. Beginning to the east on the Hall-Jackson county line, it
linked Georgia and Tennessee across the Cherokee Nation.
Rights to use the route were granted informally by the Indians in 1803 and
formally in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee.
Prior to that time the trace served as a trading path from Augusta to the
Cherokees of northwest Georgia and southeast Tennessee.
058-1 Georgia Historical Commission 1954
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