- Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection (Georgia Archives)
- Title:
- Oglethorpe Bowlder, Columbus, Ga.
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1979
- Subject:
- Boulders--Georgia--Columbus
Monuments--Georgia--Columbus
Oglethorpe, James Edward, 1696-1785--Monuments - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Where Oglethorpe Crossed the Chattahoochee. A granite bowlder, erected by Oglethorpe Chapter at the intersection of Broadway and Fourth Street, Columbus, Georgia, marking the spot where General James Edward Oglethorpe crossed the Chattahoochee River on an historic mission nearly two centuries ago. The stone is thus engraved: Kenard's Trail or Ferry Here General Oglethorpe crossed the Chattahoochee and at Coweta Town Southwest of this point, signed the famous treaty with the Indians, August 31st 1739. Erected by the Oglethorpe Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Columbus, Georgia, 1922.
- Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/postcard/id/712
- Additional Rights Information:
- Postcards published after 1923 may be covered by copyright. The Georgia Archives cannot provide permission to publish.
- Extent:
- Visual image
- Original Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection, RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
