old as dirt

the routes of some of the city's oldest roads remain in use today, roads that pre-date the city and that had their origins in ancient indian trails, some of which themselves followed primeval tracks worn by woodland buffalo and other pleistocene megafuana --- parts of peachtree road, moores mill road, arden road, dekalb avenue, and cascade road, to name but a few ---

but none of those are nearly so well-preserved as a section of the old marietta road in the far reaches of crestlawn cemetery in northwest atlanta --- it shows up in the state's land-lot survey in 1821 as one of the existing trails and paths through the area and, although it has been paved with asphalt, it was never widened beyond the old wagon road ---

the road runs along a high narrow ridge with wonderful views of the city on one side and, though harder to see today, the river on the other --- in july 2014, the outer line of the confederate defensive works on the north and west sides of the city began on this ridge