page007655@cs.com, Creek and Cherokee travelers (probably other Nations also) would bend a young tree toward the ground and anchor it with a large stone or tie it with a vine or strip of leather. The direction in which the tree was bent indicated the direction to travel to remain on a path. It has been said this was one of the methods the old roads of Native American days were marked. Bankhead Highway, Highway 78, running between Atlanta and Birmingham and the north south Federal Road are examples. Perhaps your search will be more productive in pre 1940s maps, especially if that was a decade when growth prevailed and new roads built and named necessitating new maps. WW ll ended and solders were granted building lots for homesteads. Just a research period to possibility ponder, Rosebird