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Oglethorpe County was originally part of a large tract of land surrendered by Creek and Cherokee Native Americans to the Colony of Georgia in the treaty of 1773. The county itself was founded on December 19, 1793, and is named for Georgia's founder, General James Oglethorpe. On September 10, 1919, Obe Cox was accused of murdering a White farmer ...
The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943. Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1950. Reprint, Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1987. ISBN 0-86526-032-X; Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Reprint ...
July 1, 1975 (3 mi. SE of Smithonia on SR S2164 over Big Clouds Creek: Smithonia: 7: Langston-Daniel House: Langston-Daniel House: January 31, 1978 (5 mi. (8 km) W of Crawford on U.S. 78
Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 [1] – 30 June 1785) was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America.
Smithonia is an unincorporated community in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, United States, at the intersection of Crawford-Smithonia and Smithonia Roads.It is also the name of a historical plantation listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The largest school systems in North Carolina are the Wake County Public School System, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Guilford County Schools, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and Cumberland County Schools. [207] In total there are 2,425 public schools in the state, including over 200 charter schools. [208]
Quercus oglethorpensis, also called Oglethorpe Oak, a species of plant found in the Piedmont of Georgia and South Carolina, and in Louisiana and Mississippi USS Oglethorpe (AKA-100) , an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship in service from 1945 to 1968
Macon County was created in 1837 from parts of Houston ("house-ton") and Marion counties, effective December 14 of that year. The 91st county, it was named for the then-recently deceased General Nathaniel Macon [4] of North Carolina, who served in the U.S. Congress for 37 years and ran for U.S. vice president.