My name is George T Reed Mr. Noye H Nesbit, (NHN) Norcross native, deceased. He was born in Norcross on Thrasher Street, educated Georgia Tech 1917, etc. He told many stories which I have recorded and typed. One that I must bring to your attention is his recollections of Peachtree Road.
When NHN was a small boy, ca 1903-5, he was in a horse-drawn wagon riding with his grandmother. As they approached the shallow place in the Chattahoochie to cross over, his grandmother told him (essentially):

Over there is where William Nesbit and two other men, (and their "helpers"...slaves), finished marking out a road from Hog Mountain to Alabama. When they got to the Chattahoochie (shallow place), they all were sitting around and one of the crew asked, "What shall we call this road?" Another said (words essentially), "...see that pine tree and the pitch (resin) (where the Indians had gotten pitch to seal their canoes) ? Another said, lets call it Pitch Tree Road. Thus this was the first name of the famous name now in Atlanta, etc.

William Nesbit was later on a three-man commission to name the present road, Peach Tree Road. I do NOT know which of the three men suggested "Peach Tree road". I want to think it was William Nesbit, but I do NOT know which of the three men suggested "Peach Tree. etc.