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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2Z4_african-american-monument_Savannah-GA.html
We were stolen, sold and bought together from the African ContinentWe got on the slave ships together, we lay back to belly in the holds of theslave ships in each others excrement and urine together. Sometimes diedtogether and our lifeless bodies …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2Z1_john-wesley-1703-1791_Savannah-GA.html
Founder of Methodism
On the "trust lot" south of President Street and immediately west of this square stood in 1736- 37 the parsonage in which John Wesley resided. In the adjoining garden he read, prayed and meditated. Weekly meetings of member…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2YO_landing-of-oglethorpe-and-the-colonists_Savannah-GA.html
James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, landed with the original colonists, about 114 in number, at the foot of this bluff on February 1 (February 12, new style), 1733. The site where he pitched his tent is marked by the stone bench locat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2TZ_william-bartram-trail_Savannah-GA.html
In 1765 John and William Bartram, naturalists, began an extended trail from Savannah through Georgia and left a legacy of impressions.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2TO_burial-sites-of-immortal-600_Tybee-Island-GA.html
The Immortal 600 were a group of Confederate officers held prisoners of war at Fort Pulaski during the bitterly cold winter of 1864-1865. They were moved here from Charleston where they had been placed in the line of artillery fire in retaliation …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2TK_john-wesley-1703-1791_Tybee-Island-GA.html
On February 6, 1736, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, landed at Peeper (now Cockspur) Island near here and there preached to his fellow voyagers his first sermon on American soil. A monument has been erected on Cockspur Island to commemorate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SZ_german-volunteers_Tybee-Island-GA.html
Membership Rollof theOfficers and Privatesof theGerman Volunteersorganized in 1845who left Savannahon board the Steam Tug Sampson on Wednesdaythe 24th of January 1861, to garrisonFort PulaskiJohn H. Stegin, CaptainAnthony Basler, 1st Lieut. &middo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SX_the-waving-girl_Tybee-Island-GA.html
For 44 years, Florence Martus (1868-1943) lived on nearby Elba Island with her brother, the lighthouse keeper, and no ship arrived for Savannah or departed from 1887 to 1931 without her waving a handkerchief by day or a lantern by night. Throughou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SO_fort-pulaski_Savannah-GA.html
Named for General Casimer Pulaski, the Polish hero who was mortally wounded at the siege of Savannah, 1779, Fort Pulaski was built in accordance with plans by General Simon Bernard, formerly chief engineer under Napoleon. Begun in 1829 and complet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QF_shermans-march-to-the-sea_Garden-City-GA.html
Beginning on December 10, 1864, Union and Confederate soldiers fought near here at Shaw's Bridge and Shaw's Dam, as Union General William T. Sherman's army moved toward Savannah. During bloody fighting, Confederates twice repulsed Union attempts t…