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Oglethorpe and Savannah’s City Plan – Georgia Historical Society

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Learn about Savannah’s innovative city plan and Oglethorpe’s role laying out Georgia’s first city.

The historical record is not entirely clear on who designed Savannah’s city plan and what inspired it, but it is clear that Oglethorpe led the effort to take the design from plan to reality. The plan was important militarily because it would make the city easier to defend from the Spanish to the south and against potentially hostile Indians. Oglethorpe laid out the city around a series of squares and laid out the streets in a grid pattern. Each square had a small community of colonists living around it and had separate lots dedicated to community buildings. For each of the freemen who came…

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