Pulaski-Laurens County GaArchives News.....Pulaski Highways (The Chicken Road)  April 1926
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Hawkinsville Dispatch And News Historical Edition April 1926
How did it get the name.  The Hawkinsville Dispatch, in its issue of May 1st, 
1879 quotes the Dublin Post as follows:

“Ms. Jas Wyatt tells us that Mrs. Polly Weaver says Mr. Thomas B. Fuqua is 
mistaken in thinking the Chicken Road to Hawkinsville got its name from the 
Chicken stealing proclivities of the road hands who opened the road.  This 
aged lady, now about 80 says the Chickasaw Indians who lived in this community 
used to travel that road to Hawkinsville (which town, by the way was at that 
time situation on this side of the Ocmulgee River and called Hartford) to 
trade, and that on this account it was called the Chicksaw road, finally 
abbreviated to Chicken road.”


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Exerpt from article entitled "Pulaski Highways" Hawkinsville Dispatch and News 
Historical Edition

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