- Road
- Early
- late 1813 or early 1814
- DeKalb County
- General area only
Peachtree Road, the 1813-14 military road
The first Peachtree Road was a military road cut in late 1813 or early 1814 from Fort Daniel on Hog Mountain, in Gwinnett, to the new fort at Standing Peachtree, to haul supplies for the Creek War.
The record
NGE says work on the road connecting Fort Daniel with the fort at Standing Peachtree began in October 1813, when Gilmer was ordered to build the fort; in Gwinnett it is still called Old Peachtree Road. The GHS Peachtree Road marker in Duluth says supplies were to be floated down the river to Gen. Andrew Jackson's and Gen. John Floyd's troops, that Fort Daniel was then Georgia's westernmost point, and that the old road entered today's highway there. The GHS Standing Peach Tree marker says the Hog Mountain section, 'prolonged S. to Atlanta,' became today's Peachtree Road; west of Buckhead the old route to the river followed the trail via Moores Mill Road.
Today: Peachtree Rd and Peachtree St; Old Peachtree Rd in Gwinnett.
Where on the map: Fort Daniel (Hog Mountain, Gwinnett) southwest to Duluth, where the GHS marker says it entered today's Buford Hwy; southwest along the Hog Mountain ridge now followed by Peachtree Rd through Chamblee and Brookhaven to Buckhead; west via the Moores Mill Rd area to Standing Peachtree. Peachtree Rd/St south of Buckhead is the later extension to Atlanta.