- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Old Federal Road historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Murray County
Federal Road (Ala. and Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Murray County, Eton, 34.82508, -84.76327
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: U.S. 411 at the Diamond Carpet Mill just south of Eton
Text of marker: "OLD FEDERAL ROAD. This highway follows closely the course of the Old Federal Road, the first vehicular and postal route to link Georgia and Tennessee across the Cherokee Nation. Informal permission to use the thoroughfare was granted by the Indians in 1803 and confirmed by a treaty in 1805. Beginning on the southeast boundary of the Cherokees in the direction of Athens, the road led this way via Tate and Talking Rock. At Ramhurst another branch ran by Spring Place and Rossville toward Nashville. The noted Vann family of the Cherokees maintained a stage stop and stand near this spot. 105-6 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_old-federal-road7
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_old-federal-road7
- 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:
-
