In the May 4, 1938 edition of the Bulloch Herald, on the coming Saturday of May 6, 1938, the first legal whiskey would be sold in Bulloch County since Dec. 19, 1879. Governor and Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe, Georgia's founding father, had wanted to create a sober colony from the very beginning, but the colonists had other ideas and simply ignored him. Even when King George flatly banned the sale of rum in Georgia in 1735, the colonists continued to party on. The Trustees of Georgia finally gave up in 1742 and began licensing taverns and public houses to sell alcohol.