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Identifier: savannahitssurro00greg (find matches)
Title: Savannah and its surroundings
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Gregory, G. A
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Publisher: (Savannah, Ga., Press of the Morning news
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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7 at a cost of $50,000. Itis of brick and iron, with iron cells, and Sheriflfs residence. The Cotton Compresses are among the principal objectsof interest to visitors. The Gordon presses are at the OceanSteamship Companys wharves, and the Upper Hydrau-lic Presses are at the foot of Montgomery street. A baleof uncompressed cotton averages 381 cubic feet, with anaverage of 12f pounds per cubic foot. After the bale hasbeen compressed it averages IS cubic feet, with an averageof 28 pounds per cubic foot. The pressure in compressing abale is from 1,500 to 2,000 tons. In no city in this countryhas the attention been paid to compressing cotton that thereis in Savannah. The Rice Mills of Savannah are interesting, from thefact that, except those in South Carolina and Louisiana, theyare the only mills in this country. There are three mills—the Upper Mills, on River street, near Farm; the PlantersMill, on River street, near Ann, and the Savannah Mill, onRiver street, at the foot of East Broad.
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Savannah and Its Surroundings. 51 SAVANNAHS CHURCHES. mll^lnii—■ Christ Church, on Bull street, fronting Johnson Square,is the mother church of the Episcopal Communion in Geor-gia. Christ Church parish was founded soon after the set-tlement of Savannah. The first edifice was begun in 1743,but was not completed until 1750. In 1796 it was destroyedby fire and was rebuilt upon an enlarged plan in 1803. Thenext year it was partly demolished by a hurricane and was notrebuilt until 1810. In 1838 the corner-stone of the presentedifice was laid, the old church having been torn down,and the building was completed in 1840. The founderof Christ Church was Eev. Henry Herbert, who cameover from England with Oglethorpe. John Wesleywas its third rector, and on the site of the present edificestood the rude chapel, in which he ministered as Chaplain tothe colonists. The late Bishop Stephen Elliott was rector ofthe church from 1861 until his death, in 1866, and in thechancel is a beautiful window t

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