September History Hour: Author Event with Michael Thurmond on "James Oglethorpe: Father of Georgia”
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · 12:00 PM EDT · Historic Athens · Athens, GA
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James Oglethorpe would found Georgia in 1733 as a unique social welfare experiment which gave England's "worthy poor" an opportunity to gain financial security, but more significantly and peculiarly for the time period, Oglethorpe would firmly believe that economic vitality in Georgia coul