- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Oglethorpe
- Creator:
- Luckett, Robert E.
- Date of Original:
- 2006-03-03
- Subject:
- Cities and towns--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Macon County, Oglethorpe, 32.29377, -84.06102
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the town of Oglethorpe, Georgia. Located sixty-five miles east of Columbus and sixty miles southwest of Macon in Macon County, Oglethorpe was once one of the largest cities in the state, with an estimated population of 20,000 in the late 1850s. The city, incorporated in 1849, occupies an area of about two square miles on the banks of the Flint River and has been the seat of Macon County since 1856. The original county seat was Lanier but was relocated when the Central of Georgia Railway laid a new line through Oglethorpe.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/oglethorpe/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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