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- Day 111
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- 🌧 30 °C
- Altitude: 12 m
United StatesSavannah32°5’8” N 81°5’47” W
Aug 2 - 4: Savannah, GA
August 2 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 30 °C
After a 2-hr run (including a stop for brunch) down Hwy 17 to Savannah under threatening skies, I checked into the Hotel Indigo just in time to experience a torrential downpour that lasted for anRead more
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The tour bus driver thinks the windows have been installed upside down.
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Cast in 1872 as a fire alarm bell for the city of Savannah, Big Duke is a unique historical landmark. The iconic bell was given its nickname in honor of Alderman Marmaduke Hamilton, chairman of the City Council Fire Committee (1871–73), when the bell was purchased. Although Big Duke was built as a fire alarm, it evolved into a general alarm for police and military. Big Duke was also used to announce special occasions, such as the end of the Spanish-American War and honoring troops upon their return from various wars. In 1985, Big Duke was officially retired from its original purpose and moved into a position memorial for local firefighters.
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The Owens–Thomas House and Slave Quarters is a historic home that is operated as a historic house museum. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976, as one of the nation's finest examples of English Regency architecture. Renovations in the 1990s uncovered one of the oldest and best-preserved urban slave quarters in the American South. The mansion was purchased in 1830 by local attorney and politician George Welshman Owens for $10,000. The family maintained it for several decades until Owens' granddaughter, Margaret Thomas, bequeathed the house to the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (established in 1885) as the South's oldest art museum, in 1951. The house is notable for its early cast iron side veranda with elaborate acanthus scroll supports on which the Marquis de Lafayette addressed the citizens of Savannah on his visit in 1825.