Historic ferries of the Atlanta area
Most of the ferries date to the early years of European-American settlement in the 1820s and 1830s, when parts of the region were still occupied by Cherokee and other Native American communities.
[1] After the Civil War, the state and cities began to build bridges to replace the ferries.
This location is now part of a narrow arm of Lake Allatoona, and the present-day Bell's Ferry Road crosses the Little River over a bridge.
It is an alternative route between the two county seats, departing well west of former SR 5 (which is now renumbered onto Interstate 575).
According to Cherokee County court documents of 1835, James H. Bell operated a ferry across the Etowah River.
[2] It has been suggested that, since James Bell owned Land Lot 252/21/2 at the time and as it contained both banks of the Etowah, this was the probable location of his ferry.
This site is near present-day Bridge Mill community, northwest of Bells Ferry and Sixes roads.
[8] John Isom – Jr. 1st Lieutenant Appointed 2nd Corporal, March 4, 1862 Private in Captain Sentell's Company, Leyden's, Artillery Battalion.
From March 4, to May 1, 1862 Present Acted as Corporal up to date May 1, 1862 Elected 2nd Lieutenant, May – June 1862 not stated, May 20, 1862 Bounty Paid $50, Resigned as Captain April 15, 1864 for health reasons, Captured in Berrien County, Georgia, July 16, 1864, Appeared on a Register of Prisoner of War received at Military Prison, Louisville, Kentucky.
Complexion Dark, Hair Light, Eyes, Blue, Height 5' 7", Born in Jackson County, Georgia, in 1818.
[US] en route from Marietta to Roswell via this rd., camped on Willeo Cr., from which point he sent a regiment S. to burn the Paper Mills on Soap Creek.
[10] This is due to the heavy volume of rush hour traffic traveling this route to get to and from SR 400, and the failure of Cobb and Fulton counties to come to an agreement on their own.
While all of the homes along Abernathy will be destroyed for widening, the neighborhoods along the 1.25 miles (2.01 km) of Johnson Ferry Road will be spared.
It runs a few blocks from W. Ponce De Leon Ave in Decatur, in the direction of Sandy Creek, to Scott Blvd.
The Sandy Springs one is located in the Dunwoody Panhandle district, an exclusive residential area with million dollar homes, some of which have views of the river.
connects historic Vinings in the west, on the Chattahoochee River in Cobb County, to the western edge of Atlanta's Buckhead area in the east.
From this end, West Paces Ferry Road, one of Atlanta's best-known streets, passes east through some of the oldest and wealthiest Buckhead neighborhoods.
A Battle of Pace's Ferry took place during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.
It is named for James Power (1790–1870), a plantation owner, who established this Chattahoochee River ferry in 1835, before Atlanta was founded.
Union Army soldiers used the ferry crossing in 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War.
The exact location of the ferry is now the northeasternmost crossing of Interstate 285 over the river; and it is the Fulton-Cobb county line (now the Sandy Springs city limit).
The perimeter highway (I-285) is flanked on its north side by Interstate North Parkway (west) / Riveredge Parkway (east), and on its south side by the ferry's namesake road, each carrying two lanes (one in each direction).
The Shallow Ford was an important crossing on the Chattahoochee River long before European contact.
That line touched the river due north of the Cherokee Country Club, locating the ford precisely.
[17] After the founding of Roswell Mill in the 1830s, a bridge was built just upstream from the ford and the ferry business declined after that.
