Plan of Savannah
A Plan of the City of Savannah
Manuscript map
Ink and watercolor on paper, ca. 1796
Manuscript Division
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In 1733 James Edward Oglethorpe planned Georgia's first European
settlement around several small squares, designed to defend settlers
against invasion from Native Americans and the Spanish. The Filature,
a building on Reynolds Square, housed an experimental silk weaving
plant in the 1750s (when this enterprise failed, the building was
converted to a dance hall). The City Market was located in Ellis
Square. This map was drawn shortly after a devastating fire in 1796
and details the burned as well as the unharmed portions of the city.
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