Today is February 1, and if we were to turn Georgia's clock back 280 years to this date in 1733, we'd find General James Edward Oglethorpe and a band of settlers from England landing at Yamacraw Bluff on the Savannah River.
This Day in History: General Oglethorpe Stakes a Claim at Yamacraw Bluff
Georgia State University Associate Professor of History Dr. Clifford Kuhn revisits the event with WABE's Steve Goss.