Old Sandtown Road

1.5 Mi. N.W. is the site of old Gilgal Primitive Baptist Ch. (at DUE WEST) -- a landmark of military operations.

JUNE 5-17, 1864.S.E. along this road Cleburne’s div. of Hardee’s Corps [CS] withdrew from Gilgal to old Marietta Rd. S. ...

Turner's, Howell's Baker's & Sandtown Ferries

This, the old Sandtown Road was the route of McPherson’s Army of the Tennessee [US], south to the Mitchell house, July 5, 1864.

From Mitchell’s, an old road ran east to the Chattahoochee River at Turner’s Ferry, most of its ...

Sandtown

Many generations of the

Prickitt family called it

Prickittown. Several houses in

the area date to the 18th

century.

1847-1997

Marker is at the intersection of Eayrestown Road and Sandtown Road, on the right when traveling north on Eayrestown Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Sandtown

Sand Town (Oktahatalofa) and Buzzard Roost (Sulecauga) were two frontier Creek Indian communities here on the Chattahoochee River. The old Sand Town Trail extended westward to the Coosa River in Alabama and eastward into what is now DeKalb County.

The land ...

Sandtown Trail

This road was originally the Sandtown Trail traveled by several tribes of Creek Indians. It connected Sandtown on the Chattahoochee River near Atlanta, Ga. with another Sandtown in Tallapoosa Co., Ala. Later became Old Ala. Road over which early white ...

Stilesboro-Sandtown Crossroads

From this vicinity was launched the 1st attacks by Sherman’s forces [US] on Johnston’s Kennesaw lines [CS], after withdrawal of both armies from Paulding County.

June 6, 1864. 20th A. C. [US] occupied E-W line on Stilesboro rd. (facing S.,) extending ...