3/24/2023 - Savannah, Georgia

 

St. John the Baptist Catholic Basilica Cathedral

In just in time for Noon Mass

Over 20 beautiful Squares in the Historic District

Like Charleston's Rainbow Row the houses are beautiful pastel colors.

Decided to do a Hop-off/Hop-on Trolley Tour

Hopped off for a tour of the American Prohibition Museum

Video playing of Billy Sunday professing the sins of Alcohol

Statue of the Hatchet Wielding Cary Nation

Interesting Fact, more than 75% of taxes in the U.S. before prohibition came from Liquor taxes. 

Income Tax was created to replace the revenue lost by prohibition, of course after prohibition was repealed, the income tax did not go away.

Moonshiner camp display 

You finish up the tour in a Speakeasy

Sampling a Sezerac

Waterfront on the Savannah River, the current is so strong you would make out to Tybee Island

in about 5 minutes. Many a person has drowned here.

Market Place

The Waving Girl statue.  A girl fell in love with a sailor, but he had to return to the sea.  

She stood at this point every day for over 40 years waving at the ships coming into port 

until her death in 1946

The Olympic Torch.  When the Olympics were held in Atlanta, there was no where for the 

Yachting events, so they were held here in Savannah.

Art Museum

I can always find a Pub

The Twin's House, built for a wealthy man's twin daughters so they would be identical.

Finished up with a stop for dinner at The Pirate House, built in the late 1700's. Being situated a scant block from the Savannah River, the inn became a rendezvous for pirates and visiting sailors from the Seven Seas. One story says a policeman stopped in for a drink and woke up on a 4 masted sailing ship on the way to China and took 2 years to make it back home to Savannah.  Many men were "Shanghaied" here

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