Federal Road Cisca St. Augustine Trail
The road running west of here down Talking Rock Creek to the site of Coosawatee Old Town is a portion of the Old Federal Road opened through the Cherokee Nation, in 1805, by Georgia and Tennessee. It follows the course of a trail shown on a map of 1864 as connecting the ancient Indian town of Cisca in the Tennessee Valley with St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
It became the principal mail and stage coach road along which pioneers settled in the Cherokee Territory.
Marker is on Georgia Route 136 1 mile north of Connector Georgia Route 136 Connector Road, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
