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We would like to provide the residents of  Oglethorpe  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Oglethorpe Home page. The Oglethorpe Home page provides as much information as possible on Oglethorpe. Knowing Oglethorpe’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Oglethorpe’s Home page, you will also find Oglethorpe’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Oglethorpe has a population of 1274. 40.3% of Oglethorpe’s inhabitants are Male, and 59.7 are female. 30.6% of Oglethorpe is married and 49.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $48,637, and the average rent is $545. Household median income in Oglethorpe is $20,043, and the individual median income is $18,828. Oglethorpe’s Ethnic is the following: Black(81.3%), White(16.4%), Hispanic(2%), Other(1.6%), Multiple(0.6%).


Oglethorpe was founded in 1838. It was located in the Black Belt of Georgia, where slaves outnumbered whites and did the work to support cultivation of cotton as a commodity crop. Oglethorpe was incorporated as a town in 1849 and as a city in 1852. In 1857, the seat of Macon County was transferred to Oglethorpe from Lanier.Oglethorpe was once one of the largest cities in southwestern Georgia.


Epidemics of malaria and smallpox caused high fatalities in the early 1860s; the remaining residents in Oglethorpe fled south to Americus to escape more disease.


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