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The city of Savannah, Georgia, the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, is the birthplace and home of several notable individuals. This is a list of people from Savannah, Georgia, and includes people that were born or lived in Savannah, Georgia, for a non-trivial amount of time. Individuals included in this listing are ...
Sidney Easton was born on October 2, 1885, in Savannah, Georgia. [2] [3] However some sources have his date of birth as 1886 or 1891. [1] [2] Easton was the eldest of six children, his parents were Eva and King Easton. [4] In childhood, Easton went to work for the John Robinson Circus and later with the A.G. Allan Minstrel Show. [4]
In 1969, the staffs of the Savannah Evening Press and the Savannah Morning News merged and in 1972 a combined Sunday edition called the Savannah News-Press was published. As evening newspapers were becoming less profitable due to competition by evening news programs on television, the Evening Press was cancelled, running its last issue on ...
The Independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah, on Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia, is the first Presbyterian church in Georgia, founded in 1755. Land for its first building was deeded by King George II of Great Britain for use by colonial adherents of the Church of Scotland .
James Arthur Williams was born in 1930 in Gordon, Georgia, to Arthur Costlar, a barber, and Blanche Brooks Williams. [1] He studied piano at Middle Georgia College and interior design at Ringling College in Sarasota, Florida. [2] He dropped out of Ringling after the second of three years and enrolled at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. [3]
The Mordecai Sheftall Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.It is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in America. [1] Located at the end of Coyle Street (a small turnoff of Cohen Street) in the Kayton/Frazier area of West Savannah, it is sometimes referred to as the Old Jewish Burial Ground, the Jewish Cemetery Memorial, [2] the Jewish Community Cemetery or the Sheftall Cemetery.
Old Houses in Savannah (Picturesque America, 1872)1800 – Population: 5,146. [10]1802 – Savannah Volunteer Guards established. [2]1804 Seamen's Hospital opens.; Bonaventure Plantation destroyed by fire.
Sidney Lanier Cottage was purchased by the Middle Georgia Historical Society in 1973, [2] and opened to the public in 1975. [3] Until 2021, the Sidney Lanier Cottage served as a museum, event space, and home of the Lanier Center for Literary Arts. The Historic Macon Foundation sold the cottage and it has since been restored as a single family ...