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5 Fascinating Sites in Savannah

Established in 1733, Savannah is the oldest city in Georgia. Savannah is also the location of one of the largest National Historic Landmark districts in the country. This beautiful city offers Southern charm, romance, culture, and entertainment. Savannah's stunning architecture, historic squares and lovely landscape make the city an amazing vacation destination.

1. Historic Homes

Savannah historic homes are the city's crown jewels. Savannah takes great pride in her historic homes. Examples are the Olde Pink House built 1771, Pirates' House built in 1794, William Scarborough Mansion built in 1819, Isaiah Davenport House built in 1820, Smallest house in Savannah was a bachelor house built in 1845, Comer House built in 1880, and so much more.

2. Forsyth Park

Forsyth Park is a 30-acre park in the heart of Savannah's Historic District. There is the stunning white-stone Forsyth Fountain, memorials dedicated to the Confederacy and the Spanish-American War, the Fragrant Garden for the Blind and the 300-year-old Candler Oak tree.

3. Bonaventure Cemetery

Made famous by the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Quintessentially Southern Gothic, Bonaventure Cemetery, is an iconic cemetery positioned on a bluff overlooking the Wilmington River.

4. Savannah City Market

Savannah City Market has been the commercial and social center of historic downtown Savannah since the early 1700's. It's known as the “art and soul” of Savannah. There are numerous artist’s galleries, boutiques, and restaurants that make the City Market the social and commercial center of Savannah. The vibrant City Market is still on the original site of used by farmers and traders since the city’s founding in the 18th century.

5. Colonial Park Cemetery

Colonial Park Cemetery, established by Christ Church in 1750, is Savannah’s oldest existing burial ground and located in the Historic District. It's tall wrought iron fences surround hundreds of gravestones. There are over 10,000 graves but not all have headstone because there were hundreds of victims of yellow fever buried in mass graves and many the headstones were destroyed during the Civil War.Inside the cemetery, there is a wall with many broken headstones, many of them dating to 1800 or older. The reason they are placed on the wall in this fashion is that they were damaged or falling apart so they were placed in the wall to preserve them. The cemetery extends beyond Abercorn Street on the west side of the Cemetery. When one walks down the sidewalk or drives on the road, they are traversing over the graves of those buried in Colonial Park Cemetery.

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