Old River Rd (Chatham Co. Rte 41)

Old River Road, or by its numbering Chatham County Route 41, is a road that, as the name suggests, follows the Greenville River. It has a break in the road at the Greenville Expressway. This road is mostly a residential road.

History
Old River Road was originally built in 1843 as a towpath road for ships following the Greenville River. Eventually, roads were just used and as such the road received a lot of traffic. In 1906, Georgia State Route 41 was routed onto it. It gradually fell into disuse and when, in 1926, US 80 was routed, causing the road to have a concurrency, traffic back-ups became common. In 1988, a new road was built to replace Old River Road. The road name was changed from River Road to Old River Road, as the new road was named River Road. As State Route 41 had been routed onto it from Old River Road, Old River Road became Chatham County Route 41. When the Greenville Expressway was built in 1993, the road was split. A house along it was demolished for it.

It is planned that through Harwichport, Old River Road may be renamed Water Street. This will be to improve development of the downtown area. In December 2014, The Greenville Expressway was demolished from River Road to the east end of the bridge, replacing the bridge with the tunnel, Making Old River Road have no dead ends since.