Old Coffee Road was a pioneer vehicular and postal route of South Georgia. Beginning at the Ocmulgee River, two miles to the north, it ran some 120 miles by way of today’s Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick, and Thomasville to the Florida Line above Tallahassee. The road was opened by order of the state in 1823 under the superintendence of Gen. John Coffee and Thomas Swain. Although the General Assembly directed that the highway begin at the Alapaha River to the southwestward, this stretch from the Ocmulgee has always been considered part of the old road.