The Old Savannah Road was one of the earliest vehicular routes west of the Ogeechee, leading from Savannah to the Rock Landing on the Oconee below Milledgeville along the course of a former trading path to the Creek Indians. The lower part of this route was opened about 1777. At about this point, the Savannah Road was intersected by the Sunbury Road, which was laid out in the early 1790’s between Greensboro and Sunbury, a port on the Midway River in Liberty County. The present boundary between Jefferson and Johnson Counties follows its former course, and from northern Emanuel County southward much of the Sunbury Road remains in use.