About the Map.
It is 1839 and clipped from Burr's Georgia and Alabama Map linked from the American Memories Map Collection.
Creeks named: Sittingdown (now Settendown) Vickers (Vickery's) Sections of the First District Forsyth formerly Cherokee County 1, 3 and 14 are numbered but 2 is not. 2 contains the letters ORS out of Forsyth. |
You will notice that Coal Mountain shows slightly to the west of Six
Mile Creek on Federal Road. I believe this was where George Kellogg lived
who was first postmaster of Coal Mountain.
The Federal Road ran from Vann's ferry, which was the bank opposite Winn's Ferry, on the Chattahoochee River westward through the Cherokee Nation crossing the Etowah River just above High Tower and running northwesterly on out of Forsyth County.
Town names: |
More notes:
Where the two roads run out of Cumming to the west they widely diverge making it clearer why the designation of the North Road to Canton and the South Road to Canton coming off the courthouse "publick" square. See the Town of Cumming for more information.
The point where the west county line intersects with the Chattahoochee now lies approximately at the DeKalb County water plant on Holcombe Bridge Road.
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