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   Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

   A cathedral of 1876 in French Gothic Revival, burnt out in 1898 and rebuilt within a year. Its twin spires are the tallest thing in the historic district, and the interior murals were painted by an Austrian artist over the course of two decades.

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   Congregation Mickve Israel

   A synagogue in Savannah. Jews who arrived just after the founding of the city in 1733 established it, which makes it the third oldest Jewish congregation in the United States; the present Gothic building dates from 1878.

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   Fort James Jackson

   A fort completed on the lower Savannah river in 1808. It is the oldest brick fort left in Georgia and was the core of the Confederate defence of the city.

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   CSS Georgia

   A Confederate ironclad lying in the Savannah river. She was built in 1862 and scuttled in 1864 as Sherman's army approached; she was raised in 2015.

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   Casimir Pulaski Monument

   A monument raised in Savannah in 1855 to Casimir Pulaski, the Polish general who was killed attacking the city during the American War of Independence.

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   Telfair Museums

   A museum organisation in Savannah running three buildings, among them the first public art museum in the American South, which opened in 1886.

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   SCAD Museum of Art

   An art museum opened in Savannah in 2011 in a railway warehouse of 1853. The Savannah College of Art and Design runs it, and its subject is contemporary art.

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   Forsyth Park

   A park laid out south of Savannah in 1851. Its white fountain of 1858 is an emblem of the city, and avenues of oaks hung with Spanish moss run through it.

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   Mercer House

   An Italianate mansion of the 1860s at 429 Bull Street, best known from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: its owner shot a young man dead in the study in 1981 and was tried four times before acquittal. The ground floor is open as a museum.

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    Fort McAllister

    A Confederate earthwork fort on the river south of Savannah. It repelled repeated bombardment by Union warships in 1863 and is now a state historic site.

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   Wormsloe Historic Site

   A colonial estate outside Savannah reached by an avenue of some four hundred live oaks hung with Spanish moss, planted in 1891 and about two kilometres long. At the end are the tabby ruins of the 1730s house of one of Georgia's first settlers.

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   Juliette Gordon Low Historic District

   The district around the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, in Savannah. The house of 1821 survives and draws visitors as a place of pilgrimage for American Girl Scouts.

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   Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences

   An art museum opened at Savannah in 1886 in a converted house of 1819. It was the first public art museum in the American South.

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   James Oglethorpe Monument

   A monument raised in Savannah in 1910 to James Oglethorpe, who founded the city and the colony of Georgia in 1733. A bronze figure of him in military dress stands on the pedestal in Chippewa Square.

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   Nathanael Greene Monument

   An obelisk in Johnson Square to Nathanael Greene, general of the Continental Army, designed by William Strickland: the cornerstone was laid by Lafayette in 1825 and the work finished in 1830. It first honoured Casimir Pulaski as well, and Greene's remains were moved beneath it in 1902.

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   Independent Presbyterian Church

   A Presbyterian church built at Savannah in 1819. It was rebuilt to the original design in 1891 after a fire, and its white steeple is one of the fixed points of the city's skyline.

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   William Jasper Monument (Savannah)

   A monument raised in Savannah in 1888 to William Jasper, the soldier killed defending the regimental colours at the siege of the city in 1779.

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