The Old Savannah Road was one of the earliest routes west of the Ogeechee, following the course of an Indian trail to the Rock Landing on the Oconee below today’s Milledgeville. There it intersected the main Lower Creek Trading Path from Augusta to the Creek Indians of western Georgia. It is believed General Oglethorpe traveled this way in 1739 on his trip to treat with the Indians at Coweta Town on the Chattahoochee River below Columbus in present Alabama, leaving from Mt. Pleasant on the Savannah River to the east and probably joining this route by a connecting trail that crossed the Ogeechee at Paramore Hill.