- 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, 34.78845, -84.74809
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Old U.S. 411 at Bloodtown, two miles north of Carters
Text of marker: "OLD FEDERAL ROAD. The route veering southeastward is a remnant of the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia's earliest vehicular way and the first thoroughfare linking Tennessee and Georgia across the Cherokee Nation. Permission to open the highway was granted by the Indians in 1803 and confirmed by treaty in 1805. The trace, which followed the course of an early Indian trading path to Augusta, became a noted route down which Kentucky and Tennessee cattlemen drove stock to markets in Georgia and South Carolina. The site called "Bloodtown" was a resting point for stock drovers. 105-7 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_old-federal-road9
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_old-federal-road9
- 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:
-
