1. 24 Houston Street
(1815) Clapboard house believed to be built for Isaiah Davenport, a builder himself, who came to Savannah from Rhode Island.
2. 536 East State Street
(1845) A red frame house built for John Dorsett.
3. Second African Baptist Church
Houston Street on Greene Square. Sherman and Stanton met here with newly-freed slaves just after the end of the Civil War. ]

What has survived from Savannah's founding may be its most famous design feature: the pattern of "squares," small commons at even intervals throughout the old part of town.  The squares were part of an urban design promulgated by Oglethorpe himself.  Each square was the center of a "ward," intended to be as self-sufficient as possible.  A ward was divided into four "tythings," each consisting of 10 house lots.  The four lots facing the east and west ends of each square were designated "trust lots," and reserved for public buildings. Source: SAVANNAH by Dr. Thomas Howard, Armstrong Atlantic State University

... near palms colonnades on legendary Bull Street. MORE> The Cannon Monuments mark the beginning of the first two highways in Georgia. The one on the east side of the monument, marks the beginning of the road to Darien in 1735 which is probably the first road laid out in Georgia with the assistance of Tomo-Chi-Chi. Greene Monument commemorates the memory and services of General Nathaniel Greene during the Revolutionary War. Mulberry Grove, a plantation just west of Savannah, was confiscated from John Graham, declared guilty of treason, and presented to General Greene. Here Eli Whitney, then a tutor to the Greene children, invented the cotton gin.

Among America's Revolutionary officers, Major General Nathanael Greene was Chief of Staff and second only to George Washington. Together, they shared the distinction of being the only Continental generals that served throughout the entire War of American Independence.

In 1780 Washington gave Greene the arduous task of leading the feeble Revolutionary army of the South (1780-1783). In 1782 Greene came to the defense of Savannah when he sent General "Mad" Anthony Wayne to successfully push the British out of Savannah and into Charleston, thus ending British occupation of Georgia. Greene had willingly given much of his personal wealth to help support the war, even sacrificing his Rhode Island (Potowhommet, Warwick, Rhode Island ) home. To thank him for his service during the war, the Georgia government gave Greene a plantation named Mulberry Grove, outside Savannah in Chatham County. He lived on the Mulberry Grove estate for less than a year, troubled by insecure finances; because his moral convictions barred the use of slave labor, the plantation did not become profitable. Greene died unexpectedly of sunstroke June 19, 1786, at the age of forty-four.

After Greene's death, a young Yale University graduate, Eli Whitney, came to Savannah to take a tutoring job. Whitney began working for the brave General Greene's widow, Catharine Littlefield "Caty" Greene, and it was at Mulberry Grove that Whitney invented the cotton gin, the machine that revolutionized the production of cotton.

Greene's remains and those of his son, George Washington Greene, lie beneath a fifty-foot tall marble obelisk monument in Johnson Square in Savannah. Greene's funeral was a Christ Church on Johnson Square. The obelisk, designed by William Strickland, was completed in 1830.  On 21 March 1825, the cornerstone was laid by the Marquis de Lafayette. Photo link and to learn more about Nathanael Green, click here.