US 19 enters Georgia in a
concurrency with
State Route 3 (SR 3) and
SR 300 as Lee Highway south-southeast of
Thomasville. Within the vicinity of Thomasville, it has a concurrency with
US 84 where it has intersections with
SR 122 and
US 319 before US 84 finally branches off to the west. It continues north, traveling through
Meigs where it intersects
SR 3 Alternate and
SR 111. Later, it runs through
Albany, where it becomes a limited-access highway and has a brief concurrency with
US 82 and the concurrency with SR 300 comes to an end. Further north, it runs through
Americus, where it joins
US 280 for , then
Ellaville, where it intersects
SR 26. Between
Taylor and
Upson county, it has a concurrency with
US 80 that ends south of
Thomaston and later runs through
Zebulon where it runs in a
one-way pair and intersects
SR 18. It joins
US 41 and proceeds north to
Griffin. It then proceeds through the western tip of
Henry County, traveling through
Hampton, home of the
Atlanta Motor Speedway. US 19 continues north through
Clayton County where it is known as Tara Boulevard, before entering
Atlanta. Within Atlanta, US 19/US 41 runs along
Northside Drive where it is joined by
US 29/
SR 3 Connector (Chapel Street Southwest). From there, US 9/US 29/US 41/SR 3 runs north and then curves northeast, passing by a group of condominiums called "The Villages of Castleberry Hill", before the road curves straight north between Nelson Street Southwest and Markham Street Southwest. Here, the routes run along the west side of
Mercedes-Benz Stadium next door to the
Georgia World Congress Center. US 29 leaves the concurrency with US 19/US 41 in the vicinity of
Georgia Tech and turns northwest onto
US 78/
US 278/
SR 8, which leaves US 9/US 41 to go west. The highway briefly curves northeast as it passes over some
Norfolk Southern Railway lines, then turns north again at a partial interchange with Tech Parkway Northwest. Leaving the vicinity of Georgia Tech, it splits from US 41/SR 3 after traveling through
Downtown Atlanta and turns right onto on 14th Street, which is also the western beginning of
SR 9. One block after the interchange with
Interstate 75 (I-75)/
I-85 (Downtown Connector) in
Midtown, it has an intersection with a one-way pair with Spring Street (southbound US 9) before turning north on
Peachtree Street. The one-way pair ends at the vicinity of a complex interchange with
SR 13 and the
Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta Campus, just south of a crossing over I-85, which includes historic
Peachtree station. After several miles, it intersects
SR 141 in
Buckhead, where Peachtree Street continues. It follows
Roswell Road north through the city of
Sandy Springs. At its southern interchange with
I-285, it splits from SR 9, and overlaps I-285 between exits 25 and 27, the latter of which is for
SR 400, which it overlaps north of there. Most of this section is a
limited-access road with four lanes in each direction, becoming two lanes in each direction as the highway continues away from the northern suburbs of Atlanta. It arrives in
Dahlonega, where it is no longer concurrent with
SR 400, before about of extremely curvy road, which includes a concurrency with
US 129. From the north side of the state, the last major town it travels through is
Blairsville. Northwest from there, US 9/US 29/SR 11 passes the southwest border of the Butternut Creek Golf Course before entering Youngstown. The road turns north again where it utilizes a short causeway over Wellborn Branch, a tributary of the
Nottely River before intersecting the northern terminus of Pat Haralson Memorial Drive. The road enters Canal Lake where another short causeway that makes a pond leading to Stevens Branch Creek. In
Ivylog, the eastern terminus of
SR 325 can be found across from Ivy Log Road. At the southwest corner of the
North Carolina state line, SR 11 meets its northern terminus, while US 19 continues toward
Erie, Pennsylvania and US 29 continues toward
Knoxville, Tennessee. The following portions of US 19 in Georgia is part of the
National Highway System, a system of routes determined to be the most important for the nation's economy, mobility, and defense: • From the Florida state line to the I-75 interchange west of Morrow. • From the SR 13 interchange in Atlanta to the North Carolina state line. ==History==