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Marker Monday: Ossabaw Island
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights Ossabaw Island, Georgia’s third-largest barrier island, which lies twenty miles south of Savannah. The known history of…
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Marker Monday: Sandfly
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights Sandfly, a community southeast of Savannah, created by the former slaves of nearby Wormsloe and Modena Plantations and…
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Marker Monday: Pin Point Community
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights Pin Point Community, a small unincorporated rural community in the Savannah Metropolitan Area near the Moon…
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Marker Monday: Palmyra
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights the history of the town of Palmyra, Georgia. During the…
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Marker Monday: Sterling Holloway, 1905-1992
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights Sterling Holloway, an actor best known as the voice of…
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Marker Monday: Poulain Du Bignon and Du Bignon Burying Ground
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights the life of Christophe Anne Poulain du Bignon, who became…
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Marker Monday: Bethesda: It’s Founding
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights the founding of Bethesda Orphan House and Academy, the predecessor of today’s Bethesda Academy in Savannah….
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Marker Monday: United Distributors
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights United Distributors, a beverage distribution company, headquartered in Smyrna, Georgia. Following the…
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Marker Monday: Elizabeth Evelyn Wright
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights the life of Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, pioneering educator and founder of Voorhees College. In 1872, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright…
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Marker Monday: Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights Savannah’s Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. In 1930, Leroy “Roy” Grumman and Leon Swirbul began an aeronautical engineering company in…
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