- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Thigpen Trail historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Worth County
Roads--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Worth County, Sylvester, 31.53092, -83.83693
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: U.S. 82 about 3 miles west of Sylvester
Text of marker: "THIGPEN TRAIL. Thigpen Trail, oldest military road in Georgia, was cut by James Thigpen to transport military supplies of Col. James Moore, former Carolina governor. It followed a well beaten trail of the Indians from the mountains to the sea in use before the era of the white man. Coming from South Carolina above the Broad River, along the Chattahoochee water divide to the Gulf of Mexico, it avoided all swamps and great rivers. The English claimed the territory as Carolina while the Spanish claimed it as Florida. Col. Moore led the English in an attack down Thigpen Trail and "made Carolina as safe as the conquest of the Spanish and Appalachee (Indians) can make it." 159-3 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_thigpen-trail
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_thigpen-trail
- 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:
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