It head east-northeast to the town of Sharon, where it meets the northern terminus of SR 269 (Barnett Road SE).

At an intersection with Poplar Drive, SR 17 Business joins the concurrency and all four head southeast.

It curves to the southeast and intersects SR 220 before crossing over Little on the Price–Legg Bridge and entering Columbia County.

After a southerly jog, they continue to the southeast, skirting along the western edge of Pointes West Army Resort.

Then, they cross over Kegg Creek on the Major Byron S. McGuire Sr. Memorial Bridge, just before skirting along the southwestern edge of Wildwood Park.

The concurrency begins to parallel the western edges of Fort Gordon and curve to the southwest.

After leaving the Fort Gordon area they continue in a mostly southern routing and enter Wrens.

[2] By the end of 1926, from just north of Harlem to just south of the Lincoln–Columbia county line, SR 47 had a "sand clay or top soil" surface.

[12][13] Near the end of 1936, a small portion of the highway southeast of Lincolnton had a completed hard surface.

[16] Later that year, SR 47 was extended south and then southeast to US 1/SR 4 south-southeast of Harlem at a point that is currently in the southwest part of Fort Gordon.

[16][17] The next year, the Lincoln County portion of the Washington–Lincolnton segment had a completed hard surface.

[19][20] A few months later, the Wilkes County portion of the Washington–Lincolnton segment had a completed hard surface.

[26][27] Between 1946 and 1948, the entire Crawfordville–Washington segment (except for its eastern part) had a sand clay or top soil surface.

[29][30] By the end of 1951, SR 47 was extended south-southwest around the southwest corner of Fort Gordon into the eastern part of Wrens.

[35][36] In 1987, SR 47 was shifted east to once again travel concurrent with US 221 from just north of Appling to Pollards Corner.

The highway travels to the northeast to meet its northern terminus, an intersection with US 378/SR 47 (Lincolnton Road).