At 09:12 PM 06/16/2001 -0500, Valerie J. Adams wrote: >I am so happy to have this. I'll trade long messages. >My reason for trying to determine the path of this road is two fold. My >Williams, Wood, & Plant families were in Pike County by 1850. Another is >that another family came from the coast in Georgia - Counties North and >South of Savanah. Valerie, The Three Notch Road that I wrote of is the one that ran from Fort Mitchell, Russell County, Alabama to Fort Barrancas, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida. Since "three chops" was a popular method of marking early roads, there were others that were known by similar names. I think that if you will visit this site that you will find the answers to your questions. The discussion about the Federal Road is about halfway down the page. It contains a link that will provide much more information about the Federal Road. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oldfedrd/ Good hunting, "Sonny" Wm. Flake Joiner 311 East Church Street P. O. Box 406 Troy, AL 36081-0406 <wfjoiner@p-c-net.net> in Pike County, Alabama Daytime VOICE 334-566-9968 VOICE/FAX/DATA/MODEM 334-566-8250 "Progress was fine for a while; it just went on too long!" - Annette Shackelford Parks