Dedicated to the 14th Anniversary of my Intercontinental travel.
Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Savannah’s downtown area includes the Savannah Historic District, Savannah Victorian Historic District and 22 squares and it largely retains the original town plan (Oglethorpe Plan) prescribed by founder James Oglethorpe. A strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport.
Each year Savannah attracts millions of visitors, who enjoy the city’s architecture and historic buildings like
- The birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America)
- The Georgia Historical Society (the oldest continually operating historical society in the South)
- The Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South’s first public museums)
- The First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African-American Baptist congregations in the United States)
- Temple Mickve Israel (the third oldest synagogue in America)
- The Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America) and other.
I’ve fallen in love with Savannah’s character, built of the southern heritage, colonial architecture, hundreds of years old twisting trees, and southern dining. Here is the set of photos I took during my recent Tie-Bee-Island Spring Break trip.
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