u.s. route 27 business (us 27 bus.) is a business route of us 27 that partially exists in the city limits of cuthbert, georgia. it is concurrent with state route 1 business (sr 1 bus.) for its entire length. us 27 bus./sr 1 bus. starts at an intersection with us 27/sr 1 south of cuthbert. they travel on blakely street to the northwest and curve to the north-northeast. just south of the city limits, they intersect the northern terminus of edison highway, which leads to sr 216. they cross over some railroad tracks of norfolk southern railway. in downtown, they intersect us 82/sr 50 at the town square (which functions like a traffic circle around a memorial park). the four highways have a brief concurrency around the town square. after departing the town square, us 27/sr 1 curves to the north-northwest before resuming its north-northeast direction. after crossing over town branch, us 27 bus./sr 1 bus. leaves the city limits. it curves to the northeast and reaches its northern terminus, a second intersection with us 27/sr 1. the roadway that would eventually become us 27 bus./sr 1 bus. was established at least as early as 1919 as part of sr 1 from edison, through cuthbert, and into lumpkin. by the end of 1921, the colquitt–cuthbert segment was shifted westward to travel through blakely. by the end of 1934, us 27 was designated on the entire length of sr 1. in 1938, the northern two-thirds of the randolph county portion of the blakely–cuthbert segment had a "completed hard surface". in the third quarter of 1939, the southern part of the randolph county portion of the cuthbert–lumpkin segment also had a completed hard surface. in 1993, a southeastern bypass of cuthbert, designated as sr 847, was proposed from south-southwest of the city to north-northeast of it. the next year, the path of us 27/sr 1 through the cuthbert area was shifted eastward, onto sr 847. the former path was redesignated as us 27 bus./sr 1 bus.