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Bulloch History with Roger Allen: 2 Fort Argyles help establish frontier in South Georgia
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Roger Allen
Note: The following is part of a series of columns looking at how Georgia and Bulloch County evolved from wilderness into a state and a county. "Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe," written by Thaddeus Harris (1841), states that in 1733, "He (Oglethorpe) ... took with him Captain McPherson ... (and) his rangers (to where) a fortification should be built, to be called Fort Argyle." According to Benjamin Martin's "An Impartial Inquiry into the State and Utility of the Province of Georgia" (1741), Fort Argyle was "at the narrow passages" of the Ogeechee and Savannah rivers.
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