Old Federal Road

Old Federal Road is a Georgia historical marker in Pickens County, dedicated 1954.

East of Tate on GA 53 at Old Federal Road.

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The highway now known as GA-53 is the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia’s first vehicular way and the earliest postal route of this area. The road began on the southeastern land boundary of the Cherokee toward Athens, linking Georgia and Tennessee across the Native American territory. The right to open the thoroughfare was granted in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee, which ceded thousands of miles of Cherokee territory in Tennessee and Kentucky to the US and allowed the US to freely use the Federal Road. Daniel’s, a stagecoach stop on the old road, stood here.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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)

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. Marker texts and locations come from the Society's own marker database.

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