Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum
William Scarbrough (1776-1838) was a sea merchant and, as of 1818, the president of the Savannah Steamship Company. He was one of the principal owners of the SS Savannah; in 1819 it was the first …
Tag: Georgia
The Historic Bonaventure Cemetery
Bonaventure Cemetery is a 160-acre rural cemetery just outside of Savannah in Thunderbolt, Georgia. It is located on the site of the former Bonaventure Plantation. The first plantation home burned to the ground in the …
Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace
Unless you were a Girl Scout, you may not know Juliette Gordon Low, but we learned she was a very interesting women. We visited the home of her early life, the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace …
Andrew Low House Museum
Having already visited the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, we needed to complete the circle and go see where that dimwitted blighter husband of hers came from: the Andrew Low House Museum, also in Savannah, Georgia. …
Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home
Doug loves visiting authors’ homes, and so it was we found ourselves on the steps of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, Georgia. Mary Flannery O’Connor lived at this 1856 home from her birth …
Pin Point Heritage Museum
The Pin Point Heritage Museum in Pin Point, Georgia, (outside of Savannah) is housed in an old oyster cannery, and is dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee culture that lived and worked here for nearly a century. …
Architecture / Art / Books / Museums
Telfair Academy
The Telfair Academy in Savannah, Georgia is an art museum situated inside of an English Regency mansion. The home was designed by William Jay of Bath, England, and completed in 1819. The Telfair Academy also …
Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters
I was a bit underwhelmed by the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters in historic Savannah, Georgia, especially in comparison to some of the more elegant homes in the area. The home, finished in 1819, is …
Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation
When I think of southern plantations, the crops that comes to mind are always cotton and tobacco. But, we learned, rice was another big crop that was labor intensive (and therefore ripe for the use …
American Prohibition Museum
There are museums around the world devoted to all kinds of unusual topics, and you can count on us visiting them whenever they pop up near our itinerary. And so when we learned about a …