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Old Federal Road

Old Federal Road is a Georgia historical marker in Catoosa County, dedicated 1992.

On Old Dixie Highway (U.S. 41) 0.2 miles north of Haggard Road, on the right when traveling north in Ringgold.

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For the last eight miles this highway has followed closely the course of the Old Federal Road northwest Georgia's earliest vehicular thoroughfare and first postal route. It led this way from the southeast Cherokee boundry, in the direction of Athens, Georgia, via Tate, Talking Rock, Spring Place and Ringgold, running toward Nashville, Tennessee. The Indians granted formal rights to open the trace in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee. Another prong of the route led from Ramhurst, toward Knoxville, Tenn. At this point the old route bore left toward Rossville, passing just south of the road intersection ahead.

Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government, 1796, covering the location of Old Federal Road, with a pin at the marker's coordinates
Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government, 1796, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.
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For example, one family's tree showed the Articles of Confederation marker in Pennsylvania standing under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s.

What that marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years there.

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This historical marker is part of the Georgia Historical Marker Program and was erected by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Marker texts and locations come from the Society's own marker database.

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