Two-centuries of religious conflict in Europe between Catholics and Protestants  left thousands of people displaced from their homelands.  The founders of Georgia saw their colony as a refuge for persecuted Protestants.  In 1734 a group of German Salzburger refugees arrived in Georgia and founded the town of Ebenezer upriver from Savannah.  This town plan, published in Germany in 1747 as an enticement to settlers, reflects the influence of Oglethorpe’s plan for Savannah with its equally distributed orderly plots of land.