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Chatham County Future Location - 1740
Future Location of Chatham
County, 1735
- The area enclosed in red represents the future boundaries
of Chatham County. The above map shows what is labeled the "County
of Savannah" and is commonly attributed to having been prepared
in 1740 in conjunction with the Trustees creating the "County
of Savannah" in 1741. However, stronger evidence suggests
that the map was based on a sketch James Oglethorpe carried to
England in 1734 and was subsequently published in a 1735 report
on Georgia's Salzburger immigrants.
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- Why this map is entitled the "County of Savannah"
is not known, though it may have been based on the assumption
that the English system of counties would be applied in Georgia.
The Trustees had debated a new plan for administering the colony
of Georgia for some time, and in April 1741 they divided Georgia
into two counties named Savannah and Frederica. [Click here
for details on why the Trustees took this action.] The County
of Savannah included settlements on both banks of the Ogeechee
River, plus all lands northward to the Savannah River.
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- Source: T.F. Lotter, "A Map of the County of Savannah,"
1735
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The University of Georgia
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