Named for Sir Matthew Decker (1679 – 1749), who at the time of Georgia’s founding was a Director for the British East India Company, Decker Ward is one of the four original wards laid out by General James Edward Oglethrope, the colony’s founder. At the heart of the ward, Decker Square was laid out. The square’s name was changed to honor Sir Henry Ellis, the colony’s sixth royal governor sometime later.
