Old Post Road
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OLD POST ROAD. This road is older than Elberton. Mail was carried over it by Post Riders before Falling Creek Church was built in 1788 and during Washington's Administration. Later a stage coach ran between Elberton & Lexington three times a week, stopping at the old Globe Hotel which stood on the site of the present court house in Elberton.
Stocks for local merchants were brought over this road until 1878 when the first railroad came to Elberton. With the coming of Rural Free Delivery Mr. Giles made the first delivery in Elbert County over this road on horseback. 052-3 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955
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