Site: Utoy Post Office on Old Sandtown Rd.

Site: Utoy Post Office on Old Sandtown Rd. is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 1956.

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Est. March 1836; discontinued July 7, 1866; a stop on the Decatur, Marthasville (Atlanta) White Hall & Sandtown stagecoach route in intervening years; also a landmark in the movement of Federal troops from the Atlanta siege lines to Red Oak and Jonesboro to cut the West Point & Macon railroads, in 1864. August 26. Stanley's 4th A. C. (Army of the Cumberland), having left positions N. of the city on the 25th, camped here on S. Fork of Utoy Creek. Aug. 27. The corps marched toward Red Oak via Ben Hill to its next bivouac at and below Mt. Gilead Church near the Camp Creek crossing.

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1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1835 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1842 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1831, covering the location of Site: Utoy Post Office on Old Sandtown Rd., with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1831, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Site: Utoy Post Office on Old Sandtown Rd.

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