Oglethorpe

Oglethorpe may refer to:

People

  • Oglethorpe (surname)

Places

  • Bramham cum Oglethorpe, West Yorkshire, England
  • Brookhaven/Oglethorpe (MARTA station), a passenger rail station located in the Brookhaven neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia
  • Mount Oglethorpe, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe County, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe Charter School in Savannah, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe Mall, a shopping mall in Savannah, Georgia
  • Military:
  • Camp Oglethorpe, a prisoner of war camp maintained by the Confederates during the American Civil War
  • Oglethorpe Barracks, 19th century Army post, Savannah, Georgia
  • Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the town
  • Fort Oglethorpe (Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia), Army base founded in 1904
  • Fort Oglethorpe, GA (Prisoner-of-war-Camp), a POW camp during World War I
  • Fort James Jackson, fort built during 1808-1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was also known as Fort Oglethorpe

Other Uses

  • Quercus oglethorpensis, also called Oglethorpe Oak, a species of plant found in the Piedmont of Georgia and South Carolina, and in Louisiana and Mississippi
  • USS Oglethorpe (AKA-100), an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship in service from 1945 to 1968
  • See List of NASCAR race tracks for Oglethorpe Speedway Park, a NASCAR race track in Pooler, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe Power, an electric power company headquartered in Tucker, Georgia
  • Change at Oglethorpe, a radio program that aired on BBC Radio 2
  • Oglethorpe, a recurring character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force
  • Bo Buchanan, Beaufort Oglethorpe "Bo" Buchanan, a fictional character on the soap opera One Life to Live