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Georgia established, according to Oglethorpe's monument

Source: Collections of the Georgia Historical Society - Vol 7 #89

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DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT.
The statue itself is of bronze nine feet in height facing south, and represents Oglethorpe in the full dress of a British general of the period of 1730. It rests upon a pedestal of pink-gray marble in Italian renaissance design. This die rests upon a wide platform ornamented with garlands and tabled on the sides, with a lion rampant on each corner, carrying a shield. Upon the shields are carved the seals of the colony of Georgia, the state of Georgia, the city of Savannah, and the coat-of-arms of Oglethorpe. On the east and west sides of the monument is a marble seat, and on the north and south ends of the quadrangle is an exhedra in limestone inclosing a grass plot.

On the south face of the pedestal is carved in colonial style the following inscription:
Erected by  
The State of Georgia
The City of Savannah,
And the Patriotic Societies of the State

To the Memory of 
The Great Soldier
Eminent Statesman, 
and Famous Philanthropist,
General James Edward Oglethorpe who in 
This City on the 12th Day of February A. D 1733 
Founded and Established the Colony of Georgia.