Old Sunbury Road

Johnson County · dedicated 1956 · Located at the Jefferson-Johnson County line in Wrightsville, Georgia.

The highway crosses at this point the former course of the Sunbury Road, one of the longest vehicular thoroughfares of post-Revolutionary Georgia. It was laid out in the early 1790's from Greensboro via today's Sparta and Swainsboro to Sunbury, a port on the Midway River in Liberty County. The Jefferson and Johnson county line follows this early route. The old way lost arterial significance when Sunbury, once a leading port, declined in commercial importance. From northern Emanuel County southward, much of the way remains in daily use.

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