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.