Historic Highways

Marker Text

This highway is the Old Savannah Road, one of the earliest vehicular routes west of the Ogeechee. It led from Savannah to the Rock Landing on the Oconee, below Milledgeville, along the course of a former trading path to the Creek Indians. The lower part of this way was opened about 1777. At about this point, the Savannah Road was intersected by the Sunbury Road, which was laid out in the early 1790s between Greensboro and Sunbury, a port on the Midway River in Liberty County. The present boundary between Jefferson and Johnson Counties follows its former course. From northern Emanuel County southward, much of the Sunbury Road remains in use. 

Location 

This marker is located on Georgia Highway 242 (Bartow Road) near the Washington-Jefferson County Line at mile marker 19 – 6 miles southeast of Riddleville. 

Marker Number

150-10

Date of Origin

This marker was erected in 1956 by the Georgia Historical Commission.