Note: The following is one of a series of columns looking at the first road systems in Georgia and Bulloch County. In 1763, the Georgia Legislature authorized William Thompson and Thomas McCall to run a line of "stage carriages" between Savannah and Augusta for 10 years. The service wasn't successful.
Bulloch History with Roger Allen: Stagecoaches arrive in Savannah, southeast Georgia
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