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Oglethorpe is a city in Macon County, Georgia, United States. The population was 995 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] down from 1,328 in 2010 . The city is the county seat of Macon County . [ 5 ]
Pages in category "People from Oglethorpe County, Georgia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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 ...
Fort Oglethorpe is a city predominantly in Catoosa County with some portions in Walker County in the U.S. state of Georgia. [4] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,423. It is part of the Chattanooga, Tennessee–Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is home to Lakeview – Fort Oglethorpe High School.
Lexington is located at (33.870351, -83.110916 U.S. Route 78, as well as Georgia State Routes 22 and 77, all pass through the city. U.S. 78 leads southeast 25 mi (40 km) to Washington and northwest 17 mi (27 km) to Athens.
Bull Street Cemetery was a Jewish cemetery established in Savannah, Province of Georgia, in 1733.Today, a memorial in the median of West Oglethorpe Avenue, at Bull Street, erected in 1983 by the trustees of the Mordecai Sheftall Cemetery, marks the former location of the cemetery, which contained around twenty graves when it was built over around a century after it opened. [1]
An old variant name was "Antioch". [2] The present name is after Alexander Stephens (1812–1883), Vice President of the Confederate States of America. [3]Not much evidence is left at the heart of the community, as the railroad that once ran along State Route 77 from Athens to Union Point was pulled up in 2000, [4] and all that stands are a few abandoned buildings including a recently closed ...
Fort Oglethorpe (Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia), Army base founded in 1904 Fort Oglethorpe, GA (Prisoner-of-war-Camp) , a POW camp during World War I Fort James Jackson , fort built during 1808-1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was also known as Fort Oglethorpe