- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Old Federal Road historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Catoosa County
Federal Road (Ala. and Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Catoosa County, 34.90366, -85.13825
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Ga. 2 just east of U.S. 41 at Tiger Creek
Text of marker: "OLD FEDERAL ROAD. 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 HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1986" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_old-federal-road1
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_old-federal-road1
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
