Hoyt Cagle
Streight's Route
Sat Jun 9 08:53:14 2001


From Russellville, Streight followed the Moulton- Russellville Road (Now AL Highway 24, and pretty much the same route according to both old maps and Lawrence County Commissioners Court records of the era.) Just East of Moulton, he took what is now known as County Road 181, which at that time went through Oakville to Danville. There is still a pristine segment of the long abandoned portion of this road near Oakville. It is still, to this day, lined by huge trees, the roadbed clearly visible and sunken a few feet below grade, and looking very much as it did the day Streight traveled it. A truly awesome site of which few people are aware. As far as Day's Gap and Crooked Creek (the actual creek and the town of same name) see this address and especially the 1892 Topo Map and the 1902 Map that shows how the early roads ran:

http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/counties/cullman.html

See also the following:

ftp://anchor.ncd.noaa.gov/views_pc/GIF/CHART/cwmsal.gif

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/home/www/data/gmd/gmd397/g3970/g3970/cw0102a50.sid&style=gmd&itemLink=r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3970+cw0102a50))&title=Northern+Alabama+and+Georgia+

(Don't miss that final "+")

A large part of the way, Streight was actually traveling the High Town Path, an ancient Indian Trail that is known to have passed through Turkey Town, AL and near Rome, GA. It also passed through Lawrence County and terminated near Memphis, TN.

There is a 1863 or 1864 map in the National Archives showing the exact route of Streight, unfortunately it is not online.