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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: 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: 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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Marker Monday: Savannah Irish and Robert Emmet Park
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights Savannah’s Robert Emmet Park and its connections to the city’s Irish community. Today, Savannah is known for its…
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Marker Monday: Mulberry Grove Plantation
This week’s #MarkerMonday highlights Mulberry Grove plantation, situated a few miles south of present day Port Wentworth, Georgia, and its…
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Marker Monday: Johnson Square
To highlight this year’s Georgia History Festival theme, “A Legacy of Leadership,” February’s #MarkerMondays explore the history of the colony of Georgia and its first city, Savannah.
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Marker Monday: Savannah: Colonial Capital and Birthplace of Representative Government in Georgia
To highlight this year’s Georgia History Festival theme, “A Legacy of Leadership,” February’s #MarkerMondays explore the history of the colony of Georgia and its first city, Savannah.
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Marker Monday: Colonial Town Gate: Davenport House
To highlight this year’s Georgia History Festival theme, “A Legacy of Leadership,” February’s #MarkerMondays explore the history of the Colony of Georgia and it’s first city, Savannah.
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