the founder of the Georgia colony in 1733. Oglethorpe is buried beneath a floor in the Parrish Church of All Saints near London. A memorial plaque on a church wall outlines why he was an important ...

Chief Tomochichi was integral to the founding of Georgia and Savannah ... he wanted to be buried in Savannah, the city he helped create. To honor him, Oglethorpe, acting as a pallbearer, had ...

Oglethorpe and the malcontents engaged in a divisive, unvarnished debate over the legalization of slavery in Georgia. Georgia’s principal founder became the target of a relentless smear campaign ...