Rum, lawyers and slavery were forbidden - for a time.
Tomo-chi-chi, the Yamacraw chief granted the new arrivals permission to settle Savannah on the river bluff. Clearly the either naive, greedy or stupid chief did not know he was dealing with the death of his people.
The first two pictures are fuzzy because I was taking them with the cell phone camera - had dead batteries in the camera.
This is one of the many squares in the compact old city. Near this monument there is a small plaque indicating that at one time this spot was the tomb of Tomo-chi-chi, but at some point it was razed to put this monument to a Revolutionary war veteran.
This is one of the many city streets. Live oaks form a tunnel over most of the streets. Spanish moss drapes the branches of live oak and crape myrtle everywhere.
Teri at another of the squares. The old city is compact and we walked by a good number of the squares.
Some of the houses have ornate ironwork which in some cases was imported from England.
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