Thigpen Trail

Thigpen Trail, the oldest military road in Georgia, was cut by James Thigpen to transport military supplies for Col. James Moore, a former Carolina governor. It followed a well-beaten Indian trail from the mountains to the sea that had been in use before the era of the white man. Running from South Carolina above the Broad River along the Chattahoochee water divide to the Gulf of Mexico, it avoided all swamps and great rivers. The English claimed the territory as Carolina while the Spanish claimed it as Florida, and Col. Moore led the English in an attack down Thigpen Trail and “made Carolina as safe as the conquest of the Spanish and Appalachee (Indians) can make it.”

Georgia · United States