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Old River Road Historical Marker
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Photo: David Seibert
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- Old River Road State Historical
Marker
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Located at the junction of U.S. 80 and U.S. 280 in
Blitchton
32.1972, -81.43848
(Text)
- OLD RIVER ROAD
The highway northward is the Old
River road, one of the earliest routes west of the Ogeechee and
a leading way from Savannah to Georgia's western frontier. It
followed an old Indian trial [trail] along the Ogeechee to a
point west of Bartow, thence to the Rock landing on the Oconee
River on the Oconee River below Milledgeville. There the trace
intersected the main trail of the Lower Creek Trading Path from
Augusta to the Creek Indians of western Georgia and eastern Alabama.
Opening of this part of the road
was authorized by the State in 1777. In time the route became
an important vehicular thoroughfare from Savannah to Milledgeville.
- 015-5B GEORGIA HISTORIC
MARKER 1996
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