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Old Federal Road Historical Marker
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- Old Federal Road State Historical
Marker
- Located on U.S. 411 at the Diamond Carpet Mill just
south of Eton, Ga.
(Text)
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 19??
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