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Isle of Hope National Historic District

In 1736, Noble Jones, John Fallowfield and Henry Parker settled this important outpost on the colony´s inland waterway to the south and named it Isle of Hope. Jones´ Wormsloe [Wormslow] plantation...

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Atlantic Coastal Highway Through Georgia

From South Carolina line to Florida line distance of 136 miles. Traversing Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden Counties. First work done in 1735 when the road from Savannah...

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Isle of Hope National Historic District

In 1736, Noble Jones, John Fallowfield and Henry Parker settled this important outpost on the colony´s inland waterway to the south and named it Isle of Hope. Jones´ Wormsloe [Wormslow] plantation...

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Casemate Gin

With this machine ten men could lift a 15,000 pound gun tube. Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with additional info, here. Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.

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Casemate Guns

Guns in the casemate proved ineffective during the siege. The Federals converted most of the casement into quarters and later into a prison. Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page,...

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Flank Howitzer

This weapon protects the rear of the fort against attack by infantry. Three men – one gunner and two cannoneers – fired the piece. Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with...

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Independent Presbyterian Church

INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Savannah, Georgia MINISTER - Terry L. Johnson FOUNDED 1755 PRESENT SANCTUARY ERECTED 1891 For more than 200 years holding aloft the torch of truth PRESENTED BY...

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Moat Feeder Canal

In wartime the moat was filled with water from the South Channel the Savannah River. This feeder canal featured stop-lock gates which provided water control and access to small barges...

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Cisterns of the Construction Village

Robert E. Lee, newly graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, joined Major Samuel Babcock of the Army Corps of Engineers in 1829 to begin work on building a construction...

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The old Bonaventure Waterworks and Garden

Two Rumsey Triplex pumps were installed by The Evergreen Cemetery Co. in 1905. Following an explosion of one of these pumps, the city of Savannah placed a sterling deep well turbine pump on the...

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1800 Sesquicentennial 1950 / First Baptist Church

1800 Sesquicentennial 1950 First Baptist Church Savannah, Georgia On November 26, 1800 the Reverend Henry Holcombe and fifteen other Baptists organized the Savannah Baptist Church. As early...

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Central Railroad and Bank Building

Central Railroad & Bank Building Georgia Historical Society records show that this building, built in 1853 for the Central Railroad & Bank was confiscated by General WM. T. Sherman’s union Army...

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Family burial ground of Levi Sheftall

Family burial ground of Levi Sheftall Commonly known as the De Lyon – De La Motta Cemetery Dedicated 1773 Used about 80 years Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with additional info,...

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Home of Gen. Joseph E Johnston, CSA

105 East Oglethorpe Ave. was the home of Gen. Joseph E Johnston, CSA From 1868 to 1876. In April 1870 he was visited here by his fellow Confederate and old friend, Gen. Robert E Lee Savannah...

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To Arms

To Arms The 800 stones before you have three meetings: They represent the approximate number of soldiers killed or wounded in Savannah on the foggy morning of October 9, 1799. The stones...

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Central of Georgia

Central of Georgia Welcome to the Central of Georgia Railroad Repair Shops and Savannah. You are entering the heart of the central of Georgia railroad complex in Savannah. This “miniature city”...

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Madison Square, British Southern Line of Defenses

Through this square ran the southern line of defenses of the British who held Savannah from December 29, 1778 to July 11, 1782. After a siege of 22 days, at dawn of October 9, 1779, the...

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Great Indian Warrior / Trading Path (The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road)

The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Georgia. Laid on animal trails and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Treaties...

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Workers' Garden

Picture this Central of Georgia complex at its peak. Imagine the haze from coal-burning locomotives, the din of hammers in the Blacksmith Shop, the shrieking of metal milling, and the whining of...

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Turntable

How do you park a locomotive in a Roundhouse? Use a Turntable! A hostler drove a locomotive onto the Turntable. An operator rotated the Turntable from a control box at one end of it, until the...

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