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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM154G_old-federal-road_Talking-Rock-GA.html
The highway leading right is the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia's earliest vehicular route. It began on the Cherokee boundary, in the direction of Athens, Georgia and led this was to Tennessee. Permission to open the trace was granted informa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYK1_federal-road-cisca-st-augustine-trail_Talking-Rock-GA.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZ5_old-federal-road_Jasper-GA.html
This highway from Tate to Talking Rock follows substantially the course of the Old Federal Road, the earliest thoroughfare to link Georgia and Tennessee across the Cherokee Nation. Permission to use the way was granted informally by the Indians in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMECB_site-of-carmel-taloney-mission-station_Talking-Rock-GA.html
Just west of here in 1819 the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions established a mission station to the Cherokee Indians. Moody Hall and Henry Parker were the first missionaries sent to Carmel (originally known as Taloney), March 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA23_old-federal-road_Jasper-GA.html
From Tate through Jasper to Talking Rock, this highway coincides closely with the course of the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia's first vehicular way which linked Tennessee and Georgia across the Cherokee Country. Permission to open the route …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA22_pickens-county_Jasper-GA.html
Created December 5, 1853, and named for General Andrew Pickens of Revolutionary fame. The first settlements sprang up along the Old Federal Road which followed in general the route of the highway through Tate, Jasper and Talking Rock. Mount Ogleth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1O_old-pickens-county-jail_Jasper-GA.html
This 1906 jail was built to replace the old rock jail that stood behind the courthouse. The rock jail had replaced the first county jail, a two-story log building. Dr. William B. Tate urged the construction of the jail as a grand juror and on two …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9U1_oglethorpe-monument_Jasper-GA.html
This 38-foot monument was designed and dedicated in 1930 by Colonel Sam Tate of Georgia Marble Company, as a tribute to General James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of the colony of Georgia. Attendees included Governor Lamartine G. Hardman and other p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9R7_georgia-marble-company-and-the-village-of-tate_Tate-GA.html
The Georgia Marble Company began in 1884 as one of many small marble quarrying operations in the region. In 1905 Colonel Sam Tate became the company's president, continuing in that position until his death in 1938. Georgia Marble Company stone can…