When Michael L. Thurmond, CEO of DeKalb County, served on the Georgia’s James Oglethorpe Tercentenary Commission in 1996, he was part of a delegation that visited Oglethorpe’s grave in Cranham ...

A: James Oglethorpe was a member of the Royal African Company, as of course were many other English gentlemen. But I think that Oglethorpe's opposition to slavery in Georgia had to do with the ...

Two-hundred eighty-six years ago this month, General James Oglethorpe and 114 colonists set sail from London, England aboard the Anne, charting a course for the New World in order to establish the ...

That’s what happened in 1996 when Athens native Michael Thurmond joined a Georgia delegation to England to participate in the 300 th birthday celebration of James Oglethorpe, the founder of the ...