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Old Federal Road Historical Marker
- Old Federal Road State Historical
Marker
- Located at intersection of Ga. 52 Alt. and Ga. 225
in Spring Place, Ga.
(Text)
OLD FEDERAL ROAD
The earliest vehicular and postal
route from northwest Georgia was the Federal Road, which led
from the southeast Cherokee boundary, in the direction of Athens,
Georgia to Tennessee; a Y-shaped thoroughfare, it forked at Ramhurst
toward Knoxville and Nashville. The western prong passed Spring
Place, running northwestward by Ringgold and Rossville.
Rights of the white people to use
this way were formally granted by the Cherokees in the 1805 Treaty
of Tellico. Prior to that time the trace had served as a trading
path to Augusta.
James Vann of Spring Place was
instrumental in opening the Federal Road. he established the
ferry where the highway crossed the Chattahoochee in Forsyth
County.
The second post office in northwest
Georgia was opened on this route at Spring Place on November
15, 1819 with John Gambold as postmaster.
105-8 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
MARKER 2000
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