Enlightenment · North America · Politics
1733
Oglethorpe Founds Savannah
February 12, 1733
With one hundred and twenty settlers, Oglethorpe landed at Yamacraw Bluff on the Savannah River and laid out a town of squares and wards with the help of the Yamacraw chief Tomochichi. It was the first planned city in the Americas. The trustees outlawed slavery; by 1750 that ban would be gone.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.