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The History behind Savannah, GA

  • Georgia Charter

    This was valid for twenty-one years and at the end Georgia would become a royal colony
  • Mickve Israel synagogue

    The south's oldest Jewish congregation
  • Cotton Gin

    In april 1793 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
  • fire broke out

    "fire broke out in a livery stable behind a boarding house off Bryan Street. By the next afternoon Savannah was in ashes from Bay to Broughton and Jefferson to Abercorn."
  • Girl Scouts

    first troop meeting of Girl Scouts in the United States