Image Credit: Pickens County

Year Erected: 1954

Marker Text: The highway now known as GA-53 is the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia’s first vehicular way and the earliest postal route of this area. The road began on the southeastern land boundary of the Cherokee toward Athens, linking Georgia and Tennessee across the Native American territory. The right to open the thoroughfare was granted in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee, which ceded thousands of miles of Cherokee territory in Tennessee and Kentucky to the US and allowed the US to freely use the Federal Road. Daniel’s, a stagecoach stop on the old road, stood here.

Re-erected by the Georgia Historical Society in 2024