Unicoi Turnpike

The Inn at Nacoochee James Wyly built many structures on the Unicoi Turnpike, including this inn.

This frontier highway crosses the Chota River at almost exactly the same place a bridge crosses it does now, continuing south along Georgia Highway 75. At the Indian Mound south of the city the road turns east and continues to the Tugaloo River. At this point the river becomes a highway and passengers travel by boat to Augusta or Savannah.

Portions of the Unicoi Turnpike are used as boundary lines in the Cherokee land cession of 1817 and by 1819 the entire turnpike had been ceded. James Wyly moves west with the boundary, selling his land near the Tugaloo River. He would own various boarding houses and inns along the road he built, the most famous being Travelers Rest, now a North Georgia State Park.

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