Old Federal Road

Old Federal Road is a Georgia historical marker in Chattahoochee County.

At Harmony Church Rd, near Muscogee County line in Fort Moore.

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The Federal Road, western Georgia´s earlier vehicular route, passed here leading westward across the Creek Indian Country from Fort Hawkins (now Macon) to the Alabama River above Mobile. Permission to open the trace was granted by the Indians in 1805. The thoroughfare followed closely a part of the noted Lower Creek Trading Path from Augusta to the Creek Indians. General John Floyd´s army followed the road to Alabama during the Creek Wars of 1813-1814. LaFayette traveled this way in March, 1825 enroute to Alabama. The old road long served as an early emigrant and post route to the West.

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Historical maps covering this location

1806 · Carolinas, Georgia, Floridas, Bahamas. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1824 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Carolinas, Georgia, Floridas, Bahamas, 1806, covering the location of Old Federal Road, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Carolinas, Georgia, Floridas, Bahamas, 1806, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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

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