Pickens County Historical Marker

(This Marker is No Longer standing.)

Title: Old Federal Road

Text:
The highway coming from the right is the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia's first vehicular way and the earliest postal route of this area. It began on the southeastern boundary of the Cherokees in the direction of Athens, linking Georgia and Tennessee across the Indian Country.

Rights to open the thoroughfare were granted informally by the Cherokees in 1803 and confirmed in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee. "Daniels," an early stand and stage stop on the old trace stood here.

Marker Number: 112-02 (1954)
Marker no longer standing
Former location: On GA 53 at Long Creek Swamp, 1.7 miles east of junction with GA 108