Drive east on Ford Avenue between the Kroger and the roundabout, and you pass a 1937 kindergarten, the barbershop where Henry Ford got his haircuts, and the bakery he built. Most Richmond Hill residents have never stopped at any of them. The Coastal Bryan Heritage Trail runs right down the road you take to pick up dinner, and it is the closest thing this town has to a museum without walls.
This post is for people who already live here. You know the traffic pattern on GA-144. You have opinions about the Publix. What you probably do not have is a working mental map of the roughly thirty numbered stops that link Ford Avenue, the Ogeechee River, and Fort McAllister into a single story. Once you see the trail, you cannot un-see it, and Sunday afternoons in Richmond Hill start to look different.
Ford Avenue is the trail
The single most useful thing to know about the Heritage Trail is that its spine is the road you already drive.
