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After 276, a birthday for Augusta is no big deal

...because in a letter that was dated June 14, 1736, James Oglethorpe ordered authorities to lay out our town.Over the...continues.Anyway, let me tell you my favorite James Oglethorpe story. During his military duty in Europe, a German...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/bill-kirby/2012-06-11/after-276-birthday-augus
Keep Brown statue at fans' level

...photos of a statue of James Brown than a statue of James Oglethorpe. It's not that we shouldn't have that nice statue...spent many years here. But the truth is that both James Oglethorpe and James Brown have put Augusta on the map. Of...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/02/12/op_55342.shtml
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James Oglethorpe

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Hunting hilarity in local history

...pageants, parades, dances and even an official poem. Central to the event was a dramatic re-creation of founder James Oglethorpe's arrival two centuries before sailing a boat up the Savannah River and greeted by Indians.Everyone who remembers...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-10-15/hunting-hilarity-local-histor
Frankie Rubenstein Levy

...which was performed locally, as well as in Godalming, Surrey, England, the hometown of Augusta founder, General James Oglethorpe. In addition to the performing arts, Mrs. Levy enjoyed the fine art of painting. She was a painter who won Best...

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This day in the millennium -- February 12

Nation/World 1733 -- English colonists led by James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, Ga. 1809 -- Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/02/12/met_253184.shtml
Metro
Oglethorpe's life was a colorful one

The most extraordinary person I have ever known. - Edmund Burke, on James Oglethorpe Today he's the image for the newest statue in our town's newest park. But James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of both Augusta...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/02/07/kir_374880.shtml
Bill Kirby
City's statues are few, but noteworthy

...several past Masters Tournament winners, but this year we put them under wraps in a secret warehouse. City founder James Oglethorpe has a statue on the Augusta Common, where he stands all wigged out and watching the more popular James Brown statue...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/04/11/kir_194497.shtml
Bill Kirby
Start of tour lacks excitement of 2005

...last year's start line, there was no one to be found - unless you count the bronze statue of Georgia founder James Oglethorpe. At Broad Street between Seventh and Eighth, a fountain of orange water gushing 10 feet high snapped the quiet...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/04/19/oth_78075.shtml
Other sports | Deke Copenhaver
DeVaney was a splendid ambassador

...was much loved in Godalming, and has been to visit us every Christmas at The Meath. This was the home of Gen. James Oglethorpe, member of parliament for Godalming and Haslemere, when he set out in 1733 to found the colony of Georgia in Savannah...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/02/02/let_114927.shtml
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