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Identifier: historictownsofsou00powe (find matches)
Title: Historic towns of the Southern States
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Powell, Lyman P. (Lyman Pierson), b. 1866
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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been dismantled, and long rowsof brick tenements front upon the sandystreets. The tall pines under which Oglethorpepitched his tents survived the shock of war,and succumbed only to the sweeping storms in1800. To-day this site is paved with brickand Belgian block, and is the centre of the Bay,where cotton and wholesale men do conere-gate. The publick oven on Congress Streetstood opposite Tondees tavern, where the firstliberty pole was elevated b)- the patriots, andwhere a tablet has been placed in the wall of athriving grocery store to mark the birth of newerfreedom. Fort Halifax, the breastworksof the Liberty Boys, is now covered by thewharves and warehouses of the Ocean Steam-ship Company, the busiest spot in all Georgia.Spring Hill redoubt, where Pulaski died, islined by the brick walls of the Georgia CentralRailway. The executive mansion of Sir JamesWright, the last royal Governor, stood wherethe United States has just finished its mar-ble post office, perhaps the handsomest public
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THE POST OFFICE. 295 296 Savannah building- in the country, with the exception ofthe Congressional Library. In spite of all these changes, Savannah hasfollowed the original lines laid down by Ogle-thorpe. The lots are still sixty by ninety feet,flanked front and rear by open streets. Thepublic squares which marked the city at con-venient distances, used by the early settlers ascamp-grounds and corrals in cases of militaryalarm, are to-day verdant and fresh with bc^dsof flowers and spraying fountains, and dottedby historic monuments. The tint of antiqui-ty still rests upon its walls. Now and thenthe white mulberry, where the silkworm fedin the eighteenth century, crops out and showsits familiar leaves along the streets, and thehouse of General Lachlan Mcintosh, where theLegislature met in 1782, on South Broad Street,still stands, preserving many of its Coloniallines. There was a time when Sunbury, the cradleof that splendid secession of 1776, was a portof entry, and the Altamaha was lo

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  • booksubject:Cities_and_towns
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