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Old Federal Road was northwest Georgia’s first vehicular way and the earliest postal route of this area. Beginning on the southeastern boundary of the Cherokees in the direction of Athens, it linked Georgia and Tennessee across the Indian Country. Rights to open the thoroughfare were granted informally by the Cherokees in 1803 and confirmed in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee. Daniels, an early stand and stage stop on the old trace, stood here.
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