Broughton Area Business Alliance, SDRA, and City of Savannah on Thursday, November 3, 2011, at 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. shops along the Broughton Street Corridor will stay open later to provide you with extra shopping time. We are asking people to come downtown to enjoy the extended hours in an effort to celebrate the [...]
Savannah has been home to a number of famous Americans, from award-winning authors to critically-acclaimed Southern rockers. Here’s a quick guide of some of the city’s most notable sons and daughters: CONRAD AIKEN (1889-1973) Author and poet Conrad Aiken became the first Savannahian to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for his Selected Poems, just [...]
by Chase Anderson – Savannah Cultural Heritage Tour Events savannahculturalheritagetours.com Not far from Savannah’s development-threatened Civil War defense works and battlefields is a city steeped in Civil War history. Hundreds of antebellum houses, buildings and churches abound with Civil War stories. The Savannah area has three historic forts once occupied by Confederate and Union forces, [...]
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The Andrew Low House, located at 329 Abercorn Street overlooking Lafayette Square, offers insight into life in Savannah more than 150 years ago. Owned and operated by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia, this Italianate-style stucco-over-brick building was originally designed by architect John Norris and built for [...]
