I hope this is the right list. Someone was asking about the Stage Coach Route the other day. Today I was reading the history of Atmore and it showed the following:

We know that this was Creek territory. One of their main trails running from the nations further north in what is now Alabama to the river on our west passes not far to the north of us. There is a natural ridge stating at Stockton and
leaving the state near Fort Mitchell, a few miles to the south of Columbus, Georgia. On this ridge was a trail that served as a main; Indian thoroughfare. The largest stream that is crossed was Big Escambia Creek, twenty five miles to the north of us on the Monroe-Conecuh county lines. All other streams could be forded and there were mighty few of these.

The trail later was rented from the Indians and part of it became the Old Federal Road. Other parts of it became the Old Stage Road. At any rate it was possibly the first federally funded highway in the South. The early stage coaches used it. But, most of all, some of our ancestors had to use it to get to this part of the world. Portions of this trail, now a country road, are still in use today.

In 1805 the Creek Indian Confederacy granted the United States the right to use this horse path which enters Alabama at Fort Mitchell, in Russell County, and ends up at the Tombigbee River before entering Mississippi territory.

By 1818 the Old Federal Road which ended at Fort Stoddard, just north of Mobile, was the main artery of travel by which so many of the early settlers moved into the recently ceded Creek Indian land.

The granting and the use of this trail by Creek Confederacy was drawn up by Henry Dearborn, the Secretary of War acting as a United States Commissioner. The Indians were represented by William McIntosh, the head of the Creek chiefs. For the perpetual use of this horse path, the United States paid $12,000 in money, goods and implements of husbandry, plus $11,000 each year for ten years. It is interesting to compare our present day Interstate 65, which incidentally parallels this old trail in so many instances, and cost in the proximity of $1 million per mile.

Source: Atmore History
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wlowery/loweryonly/...

Stage Road is alive and well in Thomas and Mitchell Counties in Georgia today. Others too, but, those are the two I am familiar with.

Winnette