Indian War Trail

Indian War Trail is a Georgia historical marker in Habersham County, dedicated 1953.

At the intersection of South Main Street and Dolston Street in Cornelia. Beside Habersham Mini Storage.

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* This highway runs along the divide between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. On the south the waters run into the Broad and Savannah rivers to the Atlantic Ocean. Waters on the north run into Chattahoochee and Apalachicola rivers and the Gulf of Mexico. This divide was formerly the boundary line between the Cherokee and Creek Nations and along this ridge ran the Indian War Trail from Cherokee settlements on the Upper Tugalo to what is now Atlanta. A branch went southeast into the Creek Nation. This trail was the route to "Chopped Oak" where the Indians once cut a gash in an oak tree for each scalp.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1895 · Gen. map VIII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Map of South Carolina (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Dahlonega, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1903 · South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1927 · N. & S. Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

N. & S. Carolina, 1927, covering the location of Indian War Trail, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — N. & S. Carolina, 1927, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Indian War Trail

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