Savannah, Georgia

This is a grand historic town with lovely antebellum architecture in abundance.  The town sits along the Savannah River, about 18 miles from the coast where the colony began on the waterfront in 1733.

Cotton dominated Savannah's exports throughout the nineteenth century.  Construction began in the early 1800s of the multi-storied cotton warehouses along the waterfront.   The cotton brokers' offices were on the upper floors.  The last cotton office closed in 1956 and the riverfront of River Street is now a lovely place for tourists to wander along the street which is cobbled with ballast stone. 

Savannah is full of tourists.  We could not believe the numbers of touring trolley buses.  Below is a guided walking tour - the tour guide is a southern gentleman dressed in a white suit.  Savannah preserves its past with pride and grace.

Owens-Thomas house - Savannah's finest.  It is English Regency architecture, known for its symmetry, built in 1816-19.  General Lafayette was quartered here as a guest of the city.  And Savannah is proud of the fact that running water was introduced in the house some 20 years before the White House.

Mercer-Williams House.  This was the house of Jim Williams, the Savannah art dealer portrayed in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.  Williams died back in 1990 and the house became a museum in 2004 but the family still live upstairs and only the lower floor is on display.

The photogenic Forsyth Fountain in Forsyth Park.  Savannah is known for its fine town squares.