Picture Cantonment Oglethorpe once occupying this ground, a U.S. Army artillery post that operated from 1826 to 1835 on about 28 acres south of the old city limits. It housed up to two companies of the Fourth and Second Regiments of Artillery — and became notorious for disease: more than 100 soldiers, women, and children died of a malignant fever, likely malaria, between 1826 and 1828. After years of outbreaks, the post was abandoned in 1835, its troops moving to the new Oglethorpe Barracks on Liberty Street.
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Cantonment Oglethorpe
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What you'll hear here: about a minute on Cantonment Oglethorpe — the story behind what you're looking at, playing hands-free as you arrive.
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