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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWV_savannahs-liberty-ships-and-the-atlantic-bridge_Savannah-GA.html
Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, President Roosevelt and Congress authorized a ship building program to construct a fleet of transport vessels that could carry American supplies to England. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWF_savannahs-wharves_Savannah-GA.html
One of the first problems facing Savannah settlers was the lack of adequate facilities to dock vessels. While river depths along the bluff Oglethorpe selected for the town provided excellent anchorage, the swift currents and steep bank made constr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCVV_savannah-and-the-slave-trade_Savannah-GA.html
Although slavery was illegal when the colony of Georgia was founded, it was a well established institution in other American colonies. Settlers were confronted with the economics to compete with slave labor. Carolinians produced cash crops with sl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCV3_ships-that-carried-the-name-savannah_Savannah-GA.html
A number of ships carried the name "Savannah." They included warships and merchant vessels. One of the most important was the SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Near the turn of the 20th century two steamers named the Ci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCUQ_settlement-of-savannah_Savannah-GA.html
On January 18,1733, the British galley Anne arrived in Charleston, South Carolina with James Oglethorpe, 144 "sober, moral, and industrious" colonists and provisions to build a new colony south of the Savannah River in Georgia. While the colonist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCTP_savannahs-early-economy_Savannah-GA.html
A critical priority for the first Georgia colonists was to identify and develop economic enterprises that could support the colony. Trade with native Americans was established and exports included hides that could be shipped to England and sold in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCTO_savannahs-cobblestones_Savannah-GA.html
The earliest streets were little more than sandy avenues and virtually all residential, commercial, and public structures were wood. As sailing vessels arrived to discharge and take on cargos, the cobblestones they carried as ballast were often de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCT0_shipping-in-the-port-of-savannah_Savannah-GA.html
Savannah's port is one of the busiest in the United States. The terminals that serve the port are only surpassed in East Coast trade volume by the combined ports of New York and New Jersey. Some of the world's largest merchant vessels bring in car…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCSJ_crossing-the-savannah_Savannah-GA.html
Although the Savannah River provided an avenue to the sea, it also presented a barrier to overland travel and transportation. Rochester Ferry, later named Screven's Ferry, was established in 1762 and connected Savannah with a roadway in South Caro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCRU_christmas-in-savannah-1864_Savannah-GA.html
For, Savannah, Christmas 1864 was anything but a timefor merriment. Almost four years of war had taken thelives of thousands of Georgians, destroyed millions ofdollars in property and left the state in chaos. As theholiday approached, so did the r…