The Oakfuskee Path, the main branch of the famous Upper Creek trading route from the Savannah River to the Creek Indians, passed here. Beginning at present Augusta, it led through Greenville by way of Warrenton, Eatonton, Griffin, and the Flat Shoals of the Flint River to Oakfuskee Town, an early Upper Creek center on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama. White traders began using this trail in the early 1700s, and in time the route became a noted pioneer trace and eventually a leading stage road.