Tag: Fort Oglethorpe
Fort Oglethorpe is a city predominantly in Catoosa County with some portions in Walker County in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 9,263. It is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Before the establishment of the Chickamauga Post in 1902 by United States Army, an unincorporated city existed, where Fort Oglethorpe was later established, called Hargrave, Georgia after the name of the land owner and ex-Confederate soldier, William Hamilton Hargrave. William Hargrave and his wife Amelia Cecilia Strange-Hargrave owned most of the land in the area and was well known in the 1800s for their hospitality to all travellers headed to Ross’s Landing on the Tennessee River from LaFayette, Georgia. William Hargrave and other landowners in the area were forced to sell their property to the United States Army so the 6th Cavalry could be established. The Chickamauga Post established in 1902 by the United States Army was later named…
