Note: The following is one of a series of articles looking at the growth of roads and transportation in Georgia and Bulloch County beginning in 1807. According to the Gentleman’s Magazine of January 1739, Gen. James Oglethorpe and his colonists, assisted by Chief Tomo-chi-chi and his men, built the first Georgia “highway” in 1736 when they cut a road through the woods to enable a regiment of British troops to reach their new fort. After the founding of Augusta, Oglethorpe personally oversaw the laying out of the route for a pack-horse road between Savannah and Augusta.