The road running west of here down Talking Rock Creek to the site of Coosawatee Old Town is part 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 an 1864 map as connecting the ancient Indian town of Cisca in the Tennessee Valley with St. Augustine in Spanish Florida. It became the principal mail and stagecoach road along which pioneers settled in the Cherokee Territory.