Woolley’s Ford was one of those places on rivers in Northeast Georgia where people would cross either wading across shallows or riding a ferry. Bridges weren’t all that common on such streams as the Chattahoochee or Chestatee until the late 1800s. Woolley’s was on the Chestatee at the Hall-Forsyth county line just north of where the river merges with the Chattahoochee.