Last Saturday, Mary and I took a brief roadtrip through middle and eastern Georgia, plus a little slice of western South Carolina.


The day before, Mary and I arrived in Greensboro and stayed there for the night after she did some storytelling at Reynolds Plantation.

The next morning, we started the day-long roadtrip journey with a brief visit to Greensboro, the county seat of Greene County.

In Downtown Greensboro, just behind the courthouse, sits the Old Greene County "Gaol", as shown in this photo taken by Mary...



Here's a closeup of the historical marker...


And now, the "roadgeek pics" from Greensboro...


In the above sign, where GA 44, GA 15, and US 278/GA 12 meet, it is interesting that even though "UNIV. OF GA" is listed, "ATHENS" is not. From Greensboro, GA 15 proceeds northward toward Athens, going through Watkinsville (the Oconee County seat) in the process. If I were to redesign this sign, it would list "WATKINSVILLE" in place of "ATLANTA", and "ATHENS" in place of "AUGUSTA", looking more like this...

<- MADISON
<- WATKINSVILLE
<- ATHENS
UNION POINT ->

The sign below, which is located on US 278/GA 12/15/44 just before GA 44 splits off toward I-20, does include Athens...


The next sign below is interesting since it does not give US 278 the prominence it deserves...


I would've put the US 278 marker on top (with the double-arrows below it) moved the existing double-arrow sign directly below GA 15, and placed the GA 44 marker to the right of it, placing a right-arrow sign directly below.

Now check out this overhead street sign....


Noitce that it says "SR 12/BROAD ST". Even though this is SR (GA) 12, it is also US 278, which should take precedence IMHO, thus the above sign should read either "US 278/BROAD ST" or "US 278/GA 12/BROAD ST".

On our way out of Greensboro on GA 44 south, I found one the controversial (and expensive) "ARRA Signs"...


In this particular case, the sign was for the GA 44 repaving project, which is being paid for by Federal economic stimulus funds.

After visiting Greensboro, we traveled down GA 44 (a.k.a. Lake Oconee Parkway) to Eatonton, the county seat of Putnam County, and birthplace of "Uncle Remus" author Joel Chandler Harris. Here's a statue of "Brer Rabbit" on the Putnam County Courthouse square...


On our way out of Eatontown down US 129 Bus/US 441 Bus/GA 24 Bus, I found this "sign goof"...


Does US 129 not get any respect? Here's a similar "sign goof" I found in Madison nearly a year earlier (and hopefully, corrected by now)...


At the southern end of the  US 129/441/GA 24 business routes in Eatonton, here's a nice little overhead "sign salad"...


From this point US 129 and US 441 share northbound pavement all the way to Athens. Southbound, US 129 goes toward Gray and Macon, and US 441 goes toward Milledgeville and Dublin.

Here's a closeup of the 2 rightmost overhead signs on this "salad"...


Note both the smaller US shield and the "hand-drawn" shape of the GA shield. Also, this is GA 24 South, not GA 24 Business South. Oops! Another "sign goof".

In Part 2 of 2, it's off to Milledgeville and the rest of this "whirlwind" one-day roadtrip, where we "clinch" 5 more Georgia counties and 2 more South Carolina counties.

That's it for now, thanks for reading and stay tuned for Part 2 of 2.

 

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