And today I will be your guide were going to walk from City Hall to city market. A 1/2 mile route that cuts through several savannas 21 Scenic Sq.'s from City Hall. The walk passes along popular River Street. Head south to colonial Park Cemetery in backtracks N. Along Bull St., finally ending its city market. A string of boutiques and outdoor eateries, as we passed by the quaint mannerism lush parks. You will see why Union Gen. William Sherman chose to save this charming port town on his infamous march to the sea, shall we start. Let us begin our walk at City Hall, the cornerstone of local government is was just a grassy patch in 1819 when the SS savanna set sail near the spot coming the first steamship across the Atlantic. Today, you cannot miss the buildings 23 carat gold dome look east and you will see the redbrick cotton exchange the center of commercial activity when savanna was the world's busiest cotton port. Just out from City Hall on Bay Street. Notice the huge 15 ton granite columns of the US customs house, the oldest federal building in Georgia during the mid-1800s. It took 30 days to transport each New England made column from the river to the site and get another month to move the mammoth pillars of the place. The carved capitals were modeled from the pattern of a tobacco leaf from the eastern side of City Hall follow the stairs down to bull Street ramp cobblestone alley way that travels under factors walk these to a three-story former warehouses are named for the factors or brokers rated cotton for its quality in the 19th century. Step into a new building now and you will still find cotton. But today it is in the form of fashionable clothing sold in these tiny restored boutiques. If your credit card is out already, you may want to find as the ramp leads you N. To River St. Savanna's most popular shopping district, turn right from the ramp toward Riverfront Plaza. Here you will see stores selling everything from handcrafted jewelry original oil paintings. Your nose will alert you to the tangy smells of Cajun crawfish or triple events from the hip, but authentic seafood bistro is that Linus and nine block promenade. Just as they have for decades riverboats still sail from here, several blocks along the river out. Turn right onto East Broad Street ramp at the foot of the sidestreet you will see moral Park side of the waving girl statue. Its attribute this business of Annie and Florence Martus. Legend has it that Florence fell for a sailor and waved a white cloth to each passing ship for 44 years, hoping to greet her love. About 50,000 vessels later, however, her sailor never return off of East Broad Street ramp turn right on Bay Street. Real pass a stretch of tree shaded Abbott Park. This park is named for Irish patriot and orator Robert Emmett, and it houses a seven-story Harbor light used to guide vessels in the mid-19th century. Keep on walking about five blocks on Bay Street. Even during the city's commercial heyday when cotton was King Sevigny and strolled down the same intricate street grid map by Georges founder throughout the city 21 18 Per Sq. as the city's so-called jewels.ordinary streets. The spots of greenery have shady picnic areas and storytelling monuments. Let us check out the first one on our path from Bay Street. Turn left on Abercorn Street, one of savanna's main arteries that had two blocks S. To Reynolds Sq. Here you will find a statue of John Wesley the 13th colony's first religious leader and the founder of Methodism to your right at the corner Bryant Street is the old pink house of former Flanders mansion bank in headquarters for occupying Union soldiers during the Civil War. The ghosts of feisty slave children are said to haunt its 18th-century waltz, but that does not seem to hurt business. Today. It is one of the city's most popular restaurants continuing about four blocks south on Abercorn. You will arrive at Oglethorpe Square of the burial site of James Edward Oglethorpe. He was the British general who laid out the city's intricate grid and founded the Georgia colony in 1733. It was meant to be a buffer zone between South Carolina and the so-called Spanish menace in Florida on eastern part of the square as the Owens Thomas house is a Regency style mansion and carriage house painted pink blue rebel spirits of the dead. The carriage house also has a substantial collection of African Americana from the slave. Ballots continues out two more blocks and strolled past Oglethorpe avenues. The charming residential streets lined with oak trees and colorful mansions that thinks yellows and light blues. These neighborhoods are reminders of savanna's magnificent preservation efforts. Most of the architecture is of colonial and Regency styles heavy with ironwork fences and light posts. If you think there is a lot of history left in old savanna. You are right, about three quarters of its 2350 historically significant buildings have been restored. It is the largest urban national historic landmark District, United States about a block east of note the two homes wanted to 28 the other 230 E. Oglethorpe Ave. These were the residence is a Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken, who lived in one for the first 11 years of his life and the second for the last 11 years in the early 20th century when Aiken was just a boy. He found his bloodied parents of his childhood house after heated argument is father of murdered his mother. Then killed himself. Conrad moved in with relatives in Massachusetts, but he returned to savanna 50 years later, he took up residence in the house next to his earlier home explaining that despite the tragic event. It always love the neighborhood, ghost stories abound in old savanna and no places better to get in the storytelling mood than an old southern bridge. Straight ahead on Abercorn Street is colonial Park Cemetery stroll among the flagrant magnolia trees in the city's oldest burial ground. Famous Georgian button Gwinnett, who signed the Declaration of Independence is buried here, and some of the tombstones date back to Revolutionary war hero. But be careful, as cheesy as Union soldiers are said to have changed dates on some of the headstones when they occupied the city creating impossibly long lives. From the southern part of the cemetery. Turn right onto E. Perry St., which features a row of magnificently restored private homes and follow these Perry Street about three blocks to Chippewas Square. Look familiar. Will this tree shaded square as the spot where Forrest Gump passed along his box of chocolates in the 1994 Oscar-winning movie to look for the bench. He sat on, that was just a prop, but do admire the bronze monument of Gen. Oglethorpe smack dab in the square's center. The general faces south forever protecting savanna from a Florida invasion from the park's northern tip look left and you will see the white columns of the first Baptist Church organized in 1880. Look right and you will see the savanna theater, a local playhouse that opened its doors in 1818 and still continues to entertain some of its prominent players have included actress Fanny Davenport in my right Oscar Wilde. Edwin Booth was also one of the theater's regular performers. It is unknown however, if his brother John Wilkes Booth, ever open the curtains here, walking two blocks N. On Bull St. will see the white sequel of the Independent Presbyterian Church to your left ear at this 200 and 50 Year Old Pl. of worship. Pres. Woodrow Wilson married Ellen Axon granddaughter of the church's pastor. Savanna's storied past is inspired authors politicians and do-gooders alike continue north to blocks and you will pass the Juliette Gordon low center on your right. This restored White House with red shutters was the birthplace of the Girl Scouts founder. When the building was threatened by demolition in 1953. The Girl Scouts organization purchased it and today thousands of badge wearing pre-teens make a visit each year to pay their respects. A block or so north also on bull Street book on the right square name for the last royal governor of Georgia, Sir James Wright. The large boulder ahead taken from Stone Mountain near Atlanta, marks the grave of Joel Cici. The omicron Indian chief who helped the English est. this Georgian column. I monument of William Washington Gordon looks over the square. He was one of the founders of the central Georgia Railroad taking up the western side of the square as the federal courthouse. Entirely of Georgia marble and influenced by Spanish, French and Italian Renaissance architecture look NE. Of the Sq. and you will see the massive red doors of the Lutheran Church of the Ascension organized by German settlers in 1741 from the southern end of right square travel two blocks west on W. York St. to reach Telfair Square will find that Telfair Art Museum. This is the oldest art museum in the South this small but elegant art palace has the look of a Roman temple and displays several plaster casts of Roman statues at its entrance. Step inside this 1818 mansion, and you will find something I bet will be very familiar, cannot quite place it. Well. It is the bird girl statue from the cover of John Behrens 1997 best-selling novel called midnight in the Garden of good and evil. Critics say that novel is to savanna as gone with the wind is to Atlanta. It is also worth checking out the Telfair's rotunda Gallery filled with an impressive collection of 18th and 19th century European paintings beside the Hallmark museum you will see the most modern structure and savanna. The brand-new Jepson Center for the arts. This Telfair Art Museum edition open in March 06 to provide nearly double the amount of collection space. And what a sight, designed by renowned architect Moshe Softy. These two soaring white buildings are connected by glass bridges and three-level staircases that visitors climb to see expensive galleries to blocks N. On Barnard St. Look right on W. Broughton St. to see a slew of antique dealers and down-home brewpubs continue north to more blocks, and you will come to city market this for block restored area from Barnard Street to Montgomery Street has long been the city's social heart, open-air jazz club's unique theme stores and savory eateries make this shady outdoor courtyard. A perfect retreat at night bars on the markets outskirts really heat up throughout the year city market is also the meeting place for several of savanna's legendary celebrations that include St. Patrick's Day when the city erupts in parades and street parties that could keep rocking for dead. When the market intersects Jefferson Street. You will see club one Jefferson, the city's premier gay club were flamboyant drag queens lip-synched old favorites by Tina Turner, Gladys Knight, this trendy dance places a hotspot for out-of-towners especially cast and cruise the movie is being filmed and savanna. Bruce Willis and Demi Moore were frequent visitors when they were still a couple inside the club if you are lucky you will meet its ruler Lady Shibley. Hussein is grown with choice appearances in the novel that in the Garden of good and evil. That show a super queen play herself in Clint Eastwood's 1997 movie version. She still performs on stage at least once a month for awestruck tourists strolling through city markets Western and you will come across the city market arts center on the upper level of a restored feed and seed warehouse. This building houses the studios of nearly 3 dozen of savanna's finest artists. From what carvers to photographers to stained-glass designers will just be on the western end of the market by Montgomery Avenue at the first American Baptist Church. This brick building is the oldest black congregation in America. Slaves built in 1788 by lantern light after long days of working in the fields. We and our tour Europe city market, a perfect blend of savanna's rich history and modern flair after arrest of a quick bite party walkers may want to continue E. Of Bull St. Then due south to Forsyth Park about a half-mile track this picturesque 20 acre square corner of Whitaker W. Gaston St. is a must-see with its ornate fountain lush azaleas and draping magnolia trees. Find your own forest of badge and revel in savanna, Georgia's first city and Bell until we walk again. I will ask you 10 questions, applause after each question, before giving you the answer. Here, we got number one. What did Gen. Sherman offered Pres. Abraham Lincoln in a December 22, 1864 telegram as he marched to the south. January 18, 1964 Gen. Sherman offered Pres. Lincoln, savanna as a Christmas present. In 1793 eight this former schoolteacher on a plantation just outside savanna invented a machine that would significantly alter the South's biggest business, who was the inventor and what did he invent. Then inventor would be Eli Whitney, who made the cotton gin, a seed removing machine that help the King crop flourish under savanna's original 1733 charter. What three things were for bit. The three things that savanna forbade under its 1733 charter were these ROM lawyers and slavery force question before Elvis inherited the crown. This savanna born King of Pop won America's hearts with his hit song Moon River. The answer is Johnny Mercer. Okay, try this one, what early 20th century baseball legend was excluded from the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York because of the gambling scandal. But he is featured in the greater savanna athletic Hall of Fame that baseball legend was shoeless Joe Jackson, a South Carolina native who later lived and operated to businesses in downtown savanna to get this one characters in the book midnight in the Garden of good and evil, drank martinis on what poets grave in Bonaventure Cemetery. That poet was Conrad Aiken, which Supreme Court justice was born just outside of savanna city limits. Tough when the answer is Clarence Thomas. Here is what he might know other than Forrest Gump, what Oscar-winning movie was filmed with savanna as a backdrop. The other big movie filled with savanna is a backdrop was the 1989 movie called glory, which won three Oscars. How many squares did Gen. Oglethorpe design, in his original plan for the city of savanna would answer is 24 squares, but only 21 of been maintained in one final question. So seldom falls in savanna, but one-time resident James L. Pierpoint penned the words to this winter hit June while serving as an organist at the Unitarian Church in monopoly of this but savanna resident James L. Pierpont wrote the words to jingle bells, should pictures eight 2006.
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