- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Telfair family
- Creator:
- Johnson, Charles J.
- Date of Original:
- 2005-07-15
- Subject:
- Upper class--Georgia--Savannah
Governors--Georgia
Politicians--Georgia--Savannah
Plantation owners--Georgia--Savannah
Benefactors--Georgia--Savannah
Telfer family
Telfair, Alexander, 1789-1832
Telfair, Mary, 1791-1875
Telfair, Sarah Gibbons, 1758-1827
Telfair, Edward, ca. 1735-1807
Hodgson, Margaret Telfair, 1797-1874 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the Telfair family. The Telfair family of Savannah, Georgia was one of the most prominent in Georgia during much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The family patriarch was Edward Telfair, one of many Scotsmen who settled in Georgia during the colonial period. Today the family mansion in Savannah houses the Telfair Museum of Art, which opened in 1886.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/telfair-family/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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