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Savannah city overview
Savannah is a city in USA shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Known forSavannah, Coastal Georgia, Savannah planning base 3, Savannah planning base 4
RegionUSAUSA
Time zoneAmerica/New_Yorklocal time
Founded1733historical origin
City history
On February 12, 1733, General James Oglethorpe and settlers from the ship Anne landed at Yamacraw Bluff and were greeted by Tomochichi, the Yamacraws, and Indian traders John and Mary Musgrove.
In 1751, Savannah and the rest of Georgia became a Royal Colony, with Savannah as its capital.
British troops took the city in 1778, and the following year, a combined force of American and French soldiers, including Haitians, failed to rout the British at the Siege of Savannah.
The British did not leave the city until July 1782.
In December 1804 the state legislature declared Milledgeville the new capital of Georgia.
On December 21, 1864, local authorities negotiated a peaceful surrender to save Savannah from destruction, and Union troops marched into the city at dawn.
Savannah was named after the Savannah River, which probably derives from variant names for the Shawnee, a Native American people who migrated to the river in the 1680s.
The city of Savannah and the colony of Georgia were founded on that date.
By the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Savannah had become the southernmost commercial port in the Thirteen Colonies.
Savannah, a prosperous seaport throughout the nineteenth century, was the Confederacy's sixth most populous city and the prime objective of Major General William T.
The Shawnee destroyed another Native people, the Westo, and occupied their lands at the head of the Savannah River's navigation on the fall line, near present-day Augusta, Georgia.
These Shawnee, whose Native name was Ša·wano·ki (literally, "southerners"), were known by several local variants, including Shawano, Savano, Savana and Savannah.
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Savannah
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Coastal Georgia
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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