This road followed the route of the first telegraph lines from Washington to New Orleans by way of Columbus, completed in 1848. It entered Harris County at Mount Airy, later called Ridgeway, 5 miles from here. At Mount Airy, a stagecoach inn, stores, houses, and schools were almost swept away by the cyclone of 1875. Bethesda Baptist Church, organized in 1828, stood on this road before it was later moved to Ellerslie. Near this junction, the home of Gen. Henry Lowe entertained Ex-President James K. Polk and other prominent visitors traveling from Milledgeville, the capital of Georgia, along the Wire Road.