Oglethorpe County State Historical Marker

Located at the Oglethorpe County Courthouse, Lexington, Ga.

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OGLETHORPE COUNTY

This County created by an Act of the Legislature Dec. 19, 1793, is named for Gen. James E. Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia. Born in London, England, Dec. 22, 1696, Oglethorpe left England in Nov. 1732 with 116 settlers and arrived at Yamacraw in Jan. 1733, where he established the settlement which is now the city of Savannah. He later brought over 150 Scotch Highlanders & some German Protestants from Salzburg. He returned finally to England in 1743 and resigned his Georgia Charter to the British Government in 1752. Always a friend of America, he died July 1, 1785.

109-4 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954

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