Site: Utoy Post Office
On Old Sandtown Rd.
Est. March 1836; discontinued July 7, 1866; a stop on the Decatur Marthasville (Atlanta) and White Hall & Sandtown stagecoach route in intervening years: Also a landmark in the movement of Federal troops from the Atlanta siege lines to Red Oak and Jonesboro to cut the west Point & Macon railroads in 1864.
August 26. Stanley's 4th Army Corps (Army of the Cumberland), having left positions N. of the city on the 25th, camped here on the S. fork of Utoy Cr. Aug 27. The corps marched toward Red Oak via Ben Hill to its next bivouac at and below Mt. Gilead Church at and near the Camp Creek crossing.
Marker is at the intersection of Cascade Road and I 285 Access road (Interstate 285) when traveling north on Cascade Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
