This Native American trail crossing at Georgia Highway 56 (itself a 19th century road) was a major route in colonial times. It is named the "Old Savannah Road." Starting in Savannah, it crossed the Ogeechee River, running west and south of it, then . . . — — Map (db m103274) HM
Summertown originated as Summerville in the 1850's as a summer refuge from malaria by well-to-do families of Burke County. They built elaborate summer homes and established historic Summerville Academy, charter March 4, 1856. A post office was . . . — — Map (db m21214) HM
This County, created by Acts of the Legislature
December 10, 1812 & December 6, 1813, is
named for David Emanuel, Governor in 1801,
several times a legislator, and President of
the Senate. A place 1 mile from the center
of the County was . . . — — Map (db m20793) HM
South
Gratefully Dedicated to
The Patriotic Memory of American
Revolutionary Soldiers
Buried in Emanuel County
Wilson Drew Jacob Durden
David Edenfield Ephriam Herrington James Moore
Joseph Sumner Reuben Thompson . . . — — Map (db m21372) HM
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives for 29 years and Speaker of that body for 11 years, longer than any other man. He was the 12th Georgian in History to lie in state at the Rotunda of the State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia. The World . . . — — Map (db m20976) HM
The highway crossing here is the Old Savannah Road, one of the earliest routes west of the Ogeechee. It followed the course of an Indian trail to the Rock Landing on the Oconee, below today’s Milledgeville. There it intersected the main Lower Creek . . . — — Map (db m58190) HM
The highway bearing southeastward is the Old Sunbury Road, one of the longest vehicular routes of post-Revolutionary Georgia. It was opened in the early 1790’s from Greensboro via Sparta and Swainsboro to the Town of Sunbury, a port on the Midway . . . — — Map (db m58153) HM
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