Old Quaker Road

Burke County · dedicated 1954 · In the parking lot of the Lake Resort Restaurant in Waynesboro.

The highway bearing left is the Old Quaker Road, one of Georgia's earliest vehicular highways. It was opened about 1769 to provide a direct way from Savannah to a Quaker settlement centering around Wrightsboro in today's upper McDuffie County. The Quaker road was one of the longest and most important routes of colonial Georgia. Much of the original way remains in use.

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

what this marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years here

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