u.s. route 27 business (us 27 bus.) is a business route of us 27 that exists completely within the city limits of blakely, georgia. it travels concurrent with state route 1 business (sr 1 bus.) for its entire length. us 27 bus./sr 1 bus. begins at an intersection with us 27/sr 1 in the southeastern part of the city. they travel northwest on south main street and curve to a nearly due-north direction just before an intersection with sr 39 (east south boulevard). us 27 bus./sr 1 bus./sr 39 continue to the north. just to the east of early county high school and early county middle school, sr 62 (columbia street) joins the concurrency. this intersection also marks the western terminus of bob white avenue. two blocks later, the concurrency begins to travel around the town square. on the east side of this square, sr 62 departs the concurrency. the concurrent highways continue northward, crossing over some railroad tracks of norfolk southern railway, and intersect sr 62 byp. (martin luther king jr. boulevard). at this intersection, sr 39 departs the concurrency. us 27 bus./sr 1 bus. begins curving to the northwest and head to the east-southeast just before reaching their northern terminus, a second intersection with us 27/sr 1. between the beginning of 1920 and the end of 1921, the colquitt–cuthbert, which formerly traveled through arlington and edison, was shifted westward to travel through blakely. by the end of 1934, us 27 was designated on all of sr 1. by the end of 1939, all of us 27/sr 1 in the blakely area had a "completed hard surface". in 1992, an eastern bypass of blakely, designated as sr 838, was proposed from south-southeast of the city to north-northeast of it. the next year, us 27/sr 1 in the blakely area was shifted eastward, onto the path of sr 838. the former path through the city became us 27 bus./sr 1 bus.