TRAIL TREES
If you haven’t heard of Indian trail trees, they were basically used as road signs/markers pointing to trails, water sources and even treasures.
Cherokee and many other mostly eastern tribes, bent and tied saplings that are now of course twisted and curved, very mature trees.
It has been said that many point to Ellijay. There is a large concentration of trail trees in Gilmer County and the surrounding North Georgia Mountains.
This trail tree points to a spring-fed man-made pond. The trail tree must point to the location of a spring.