US 431 is essentially the main street of Lafayette and meets SR 50 in the South.

Lafayette is a city where people in retirement can live comfortably. Chambers County Museum, located in the former Central of Georgia railway depot, displays exhibits reflecting life of long ago in the county. THis is a very interesting with diverse exhibits. For instance in addition to a goat treadmill which attaches to a wheel that activates a churn's dasher to make butter there is an exhibit featuring scrapbooks, photographs, trophies and a pair of boxing gloves of Joe Louis who was was born southeast of LaFayette. The river ferry Tallapoosa Queen and a caboose originally built for the Southern Railway are displayed on the museum grounds.