Circa 1815. Jeremiah Field, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, came with his family to settle in the Cherokee Nation at a site to be known as Fields Crossroads. A descendant, Lawson W. Field, became Milton County’s first state senator in the Georgia legislature in 1857. This area was once a thriving rural community, serving as a trading post and local militia mustering ground. Eventually, a dry goods store and the Fields Crossroads Post Office stood at this intersection. The post office closed in 1905, once Rural Free Delivery reached Milton.
