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Fort Oglethorpe is located in western Catoosa County and northeastern Walker County at (34.945683, -85.245653 It is 9 miles (14 km) south of Chattanooga, Tennessee , by U.S. Route 27 , which also leads south 18 miles (29 km) to LaFayette, Georgia .
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Fort Oglethorpe was a United States Army post in the US state of Georgia. It was established in a 1902 regulation, and received its first contingent in 1904. It served largely as a cavalry post for the 6th Cavalry. During World War I, Fort Oglethorpe housed 4,000 German prisoners of war and civilian detainees. [1]
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the town; 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; Other Uses. Quercus oglethorpensis, also ...
Oglethorpe was founded in 1838. It was located in the Black Belt of Georgia, where slaves outnumbered whites and did the work to support cultivation of cotton as a commodity crop. Oglethorpe was incorporated as a town in 1849 and as a city in 1852. In 1857, the seat of Macon County was transferred to Oglethorpe from Lanier. [6]
Fort Oglethorpe may refer to: Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, a town; Fort Oglethorpe (Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia), Army base founded in 1904; Fort Oglethorpe (prisoner-of-war camp), a World War I German-American internment camp near the town of Fort Oglethorpe; Fort James Jackson, fort built during 1808–1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was ...
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: administered by the National Park Service: 4: Fort Oglethorpe Historic District: Fort Oglethorpe Historic District: April 20, 1979 : U.S. 27: Fort Oglethorpe: 5: Ringgold Commercial Historic District