Thornwell Jacobs

Learn More – Thornwell Jacobs

Paul Stephen Hudson, “‘Awake from Visioned Sleep!’ Dr. Thornwell Jacobs’s Discovery of the Tomb of James Oglethorpe,” Atlanta History 37 (summer 1993).

Paul Stephen Hudson, “‘Immovable Folkways’: Thornwell Jacobs’s The Law of the White Circle and the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 83 (summer 1999).

Don Troop, “Time Capsules Resurrect a Sometimes Forgettable Past,” Chronicle of Higher Education 54, no. 39 (2008).

“Thornwell Jacobs (1877-1956).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-874&sug=y

Oglethorpe University, History of the Crypt:
http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/crypt_of_civilization/history_of_the_crypt.asp