You should have seen it 40 years ago. 129 was two lanes right through downtown Jefferson (with a hard right turn, as I recall). But the cheapest beer in Georgia right down the road in Arcade.
I love downtown Jefferson, has a real old town feel to it.
There’s a cemetery there next to the Jefferson house. Civil War era old. My brother-in-law was looking at graves there one day and some very old man came up to him and said that his grandfather was the man buried with the Confederate Flag on his grave next to where he was standing. Apparently he was a vet.
This man claimed to live in the mansion up on the hill there in Jefferson. Just a weird experience.