Sunday, December 04, 2016

 http://studylib.net/doc/6785316/a-documentary-history-of-fort-crawford-by--mrs.-annie
A map by S. Augustus Mitchell said to have been published in 1847 shows a road from Ft. Crawford, to Brooklyn, to Montezuma, to Wellborne in Coffee County, to Newton in Dale county, to Abbeville in Henry County thence to Fort Gaines on the Chattahoochie. An 1836 map by H.S.Tanner shows the same road as far as Daleville in Dale county. The Alabama State Department Map of Historical Roads and Trails shows a road dated 1819 from Ft. Crawford to the Chattahoochee called the "Improved Road. "These roads appear to all be essentially the same one that Maj. Twiggs was ordered to layout.

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