remaining at the same trajectory, the first community us 221/sr 135 runs through in jeff davis county is the small city of denton. north of denton, the road becomes douglas highway, which briefly curves straight north and runs through brooker where it meets the eastern terminus of georgia state route 107. immediately curving to the north-northeast and later the northeast, the road passes through roper. the few non-agricultural sites along the way include a campus of the coastal pines technical college. between camelia road and palm road, us 221/sr 135 passes over a small causeway over man-made lake utilizing big satilla creek. the largest city within the county that it enters is hazlehurst just south of the intersection with west pineland avenue. between the unfinished edgewood street and belleview court, it passes by the jeff davis hospital. northbound us 221/sr 135 makes a right turn onto east jefferson street shared by southbound u.s. route 23 business as the beginning of another one-way pair. just after the former west to northbound turning ramp, northbound u.s. truck route 221 continues down east jefferson street along with southbound us 23 bus, while northbound us bus 23 joins northbound us 221 along south cromartie street. both cromartie street and tallahassee street have railroad crossings for a former southern railway line (now the norfolk southern railway's brunswick district), but tallahassee street's crossing is directly in front of the former station. the route intersects with northbound us 23/341 and the north end of us bus 23, and the truck routes for us 221/ga 135 officially comes to an end. us 23/341 and northbound us 221 run for one block until the routes curve to the north at east coffee (ga connecting route 19) and west jamar streets, and northbound us 221 finally re-joins the southbound road once again at north tallahassee street, while northbound us 23/341 continues towards eastman, perry, barnesville, macon, atlanta and dillard. heading into more rural surroundings, us 221/sr 135 passes by jeff davis country club, and later becomes the uvalda highway, passing by tallahassee off to the northwest. curving towards the east-northeast, the road passes through the territory of the beasley forest products lumber yard, which contains a railroad line that ends on the southeast side of the road at an abandoned railroad crossing. east of the lumber yard, the road curves back more towards the north-northeast. the last site along the road within the county is the towns bluff park & heritage center, a county park within the bullard creek wildlife management area. us 221/sr 135 crosses the jeff davis-montgomery county line at the foot of the neal lee gillis memorial bridge, a long two-lane causeway over the altamaha river.