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ctUnicoi Turnpike, first vehicular thoroughfare in northeast Gtorgia, was opened as a toll road in 1813. Permission was granted for the operation of the road by the Chero-kees to a company of Indians and white men. Charters were granted to the ^company by Georgia and j Tennessee.The turnpike, beginning east of Toccoa at the head of “poleboat t navingation” on the Tugalo River j t of the Savannah River system, led c across Nacoochee Valley, through Unicoi Gap via Murphy, N. C., to Nine Mile Creek near Mryville, Tennessee. It followed an important trading path from the Chero-kees of East Tennessee to Augusta.Unicoi Gap derives its name from the road which used the gap to cross the Blue Ridge mountains.—Georgia Historical Commission.rt
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Cumming Forsyth County News
Cumming, Georgia, US
Thu, Jan 31, 1957
Page 6
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