Old Federal Road

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

Located at the intersection of North Main Street and Court Street in Jasper.

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From Tate through Jasper to Talking Rock, this highway coincides closely with the course of the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia's first vehicular way which linked Tennessee and Georgia across the Cherokee Country. Permission to open the route was granted informally by the Indians in 1803 and confirmed in a treaty of 1805. Emigrants from the lower Southeast followed this course into Tennessee and Alabama. It became the first postal route of this section and was used by travellers in reaching the gold fields of North Georgia.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1795 · State of South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1802 · United States 2. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

United States 2, 1802, covering the location of Old Federal Road, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — United States 2, 1802, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Old Federal Road

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