The Old Coffee Road was a pioneer vehicular and postal route that passed here. Beginning at the Ocmulgee River below Jacksonville, it ran some 120 miles by way of today's Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick, and Thomasville to the Florida Line. Opened by direction of the state in 1823 under the superintendence of General John Coffee and Thomas Swain, this early route provided a short way from the older middle and eastern sections into Southwest Georgia and West Florida. Much of its former course remains in daily use.