While out running errands today, I took the digital camera and captured three (3) county route signs along GA 20 in Forsyth County. All have been uploaded and added to the new Georgia County Route Sign Gallery.

Speaking of county route signs, J.T. Legg of Peach State Roads had some interesting history and commentary regarding these particular signs. Here are his comments (taken from newsgroup misc.transport.road)...

They are not uniform except along state routes.  These are only posted
on the back of Stop signs where a county road intersects with a state
route and are typically not found in urban areas.  DOT District 7
(Atlanta) does not use them at all.  Some counties have elected to use
these in the same manner (Walton and Fannin come to mind) but these
are typically rare to see on county roads.  Usually the counties are
using fully reflective signs in lieu of fiberglass if they use them.
Also, the older signs were on an aluminum panel and fully reflective
(though now faded out) while the newer ones are green fiberglass
panels with only the numbers reflective.  The Tift County sign is
newer (installed probably in the 80's or 90's) while the others are
installed in the 70's.

Something else worth noting is that historically the actual county
route number was not always posted in favor of a weird hybrid of the
FAS number.  This caused MUCH confusion in the day.  Originally, they
posted the numbers as a five digit number replacing the "S" for FAS
with "9", thus you'd see a road posted as CR 92848 when in actuality
it is FAS 2848 or "S2848".  By the late 80's/early 90's, they began
posting it with the "S" instead of the "9".  In Gilmer County, this
created a very weird situation where Big Creek Road (S1010) began to
be identified by its FAS number as if it was a route number.  I've
heard people refer to it as "Highway 1010" and "South 1010", while the
actual number of the route is C.R. 192 (not posted).  The S1010 sign
disappeared after a passing lane project was completed on S.R. 52
where the sign was posted.  The road does look like a decommissioned
state route because it was built in two respective state projects in
1964 and 1974 leaving behind guardrails and (until recently) very old
curve signs.  This is typical in Georgia which was "getting Georgia
out of the mud" by rebuilding the unpaved county roads to state
highway quality from the 1950's to the 1970's with many of these
actually state maintained in the 1950's for a brief time.

BTW, the "Sxxxx" and "9xxxx" signs are becoming difficult to find
these days, especially since many of these are posted on county roads
that lost their FAS status after the signs were posted.  A huge sign
replacement campaign in Georgia upgrading the signposts and
reflectivity is wiping many of these old CR signs out.

J.T., if you are reading this, I hope you don't mind my taking these and sharing them with the blog readers, and I gave you due credit on the gallery page, BTW.

That's it for now. Thanks for reading, viewing the photos, and please visit often.