Oglethorpe may refer to:
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Oglethorpe (surname) Oglethorpe is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Anne Oglethorpe (1683–1756), British Jacobite agent
* Eleanor Oglethorpe (1662–1732, born as ''Eleanor Wall''), Irish Jacobite agent
* Eleanor Oglethorpe de Mézièr ...
Places
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Bramham cum Oglethorpe, West Yorkshire, England
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Brookhaven/Oglethorpe (MARTA station)
Brookhaven/Oglethorpe (originally Brookhaven and signed Brookhaven/Oglethorpe Univ. on station signs) is a train station in Brookhaven, Georgia, on the Gold Line of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system. An elevat ...
, a passenger rail station located in the Brookhaven neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia
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Mount Oglethorpe
Mount Oglethorpe is a mountain located in Pickens County, Georgia, United States. The southernmost peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the mountain has an elevation of , making it the highest point in Pickens County, and the Atlanta Metropolitan Ar ...
, Georgia
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Oglethorpe County, Georgia
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Oglethorpe, Georgia
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Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Oglethorpe Charter School in Savannah, Georgia
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Oglethorpe Mall, a shopping mall in Savannah, Georgia
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:* Camp Oglethorpe, a prisoner of war camp near
Macon, Georgia
Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia. Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is located southeast of Atlanta and lies near the geographic center of the state of Geo ...
, maintained by the Confederates during the American Civil War
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Oglethorpe Barracks, 19th century Army post, Savannah, Georgia
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the town
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Fort Oglethorpe (Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia), Army base founded in 1904
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Fort Oglethorpe, GA (Prisoner-of-war-Camp)
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia was a military facility in the US state of Georgia, in Catoosa County. After it was deactivated in 1947, its facilities formed the basis for the present town of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
During and after World War I, f ...
, a POW camp during World War I
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Fort James Jackson, fort built during 1808-1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was also known as Fort Oglethorpe
Other Uses
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Quercus oglethorpensis
''Quercus oglethorpensis'' (also called Oglethorpe oak) is a species of plant in the beech family. It is endemic to the United States. It is named for Oglethorpe County, Georgia, where it was first discovered. The county, in turn, is named for J ...
'', also called Oglethorpe Oak, a species of plant found in the Piedmont of Georgia and South Carolina, and in Louisiana and Mississippi
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USS ''Oglethorpe'' (AKA-100), an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship in service from 1945 to 1968
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List of NASCAR race tracks
This is a list of tracks which have hosted a NASCAR race from 1948 to present. Various forms of race track have been used throughout the history of NASCAR, including purpose-built race tracks such as Daytona.
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for Oglethorpe Speedway Park, a NASCAR race track in Pooler, Georgia
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Oglethorpe Power
Oglethorpe Power Corporation is a medium-sized electric utility in Georgia, United States. Formed in 1974, Oglethorpe is a not-for-profit cooperative owned by the 38 electric membership corporations that it serves. The utility's headquarters are i ...
, an electric power company headquartered in Tucker, Georgia
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Change at Oglethorpe
BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7) is a British Digital radio in the United Kingdom, digital radio broadcasting, radio station from the BBC, broadcasting archived repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a ...
'', a radio program that aired on BBC Radio 2
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Oglethorpe, a recurring character from ''
Aqua Teen Hunger Force''
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Bo Buchanan, Beaufort Oglethorpe "Bo" Buchanan, a fictional character on the soap opera ''One Life to Live''
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