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unusual facts about the Oglethorpe Plan



Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury

In light of his family’s intellectual tradition, he may have been among those Trustees who, following James Oglethorpe, saw the Georgia colony as a potential model society as well as one that addressed several more pragmatic purposes (see the Oglethorpe Plan).

Benjamin Martyn

The document contains the principles for settling the Georgia Colony, now famously known as the Oglethorpe Plan.

John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont

He and Oglethorpe, working with several other close associates, devised an elaborate plan for settlement of the colony now famously known as the Oglethorpe Plan.

Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America

Now known as the Oglethorpe Plan, it specified how towns and regions would be laid out, how property would be equitably and sustainably allocated, and how society would be organized to defend itself on a perilous frontier.


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Oglethorpe Plan

Though seldom mentioned, notable vestiges of the Oglethorpe Plan can be found in the land use pattern surrounding Savannah; in the cities of Darien, Georgia; Brunswick, Georgia; and at Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons Island, Georgia.