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Greene Square (Savannah, Georgia)

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cottages; has been occupied by the Green Palm Inn since 1998. At that time the properties were combined into one. The properties were built for sea captains Samuel House and N. B. Sison.
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planned and initiated a project to replace the cistern that caved-in, design and install shoring, close the fire lane, and install new walks, benches, lighting and planting.
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Each building below is in one of the eight blocks around the square composed of four residential "tything" blocks and four civic ("trust") blocks, now known as the
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Greene Square was once the center of Savannah's African-American community. In the northwestern trust lot is the Second African Baptist Church, the site where
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134 Houston Street, in the square's southeastern tything block, dates to the late 1800s. Between 1899 and the mid-1900s it was the home of the
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George Jones House (1), 509 East President Street (1799–1808) – joint-oldest building on the square
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Thomas Williams House, 503 East President Street (1799–1808) – joint-oldest building on the square
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Mary Cullum Property (the Green Palm Inn, as of 2022), 546–548 East President Street
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124 Houston Street, a relatively late addition to the square, as it looked during
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announced Special Field Orders 15, better known as "40 acres and a mule".
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for licensed tour guides in the City of Savannah, accessed June 16, 2007.
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Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten (former), 134–142 Houston Street
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Magnolia – Publication of the Southern Garden History Society
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forces during the Revolution, and after the war settled at
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508 East York Lane (1828) – the rear of 140 Price Street
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Second African Baptist Church, 123 Houston Street (1926)
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Frederick Heineman Property (1), 509 East York Street
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Anthony Mira House, 505 East President Street (1853)
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Catherine Devaux House, 513 East York Street (1853)
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Greene Square, Savannah

John Dorsett House
Nathanael Greene
Savannah, Georgia
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Houston Street
22 squares of Savannah, Georgia
Houston Street
Washington Square
Columbia Square
Crawford Square
East York Street
Revolutionary War
Nathanael Greene
George Washington
Rhode Island
Southern
Mulberry Grove
Johnson Square
Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten
Union Army
William Tecumseh Sherman
546–548 East President Street
John Dorsett House
Hull Street
Clermont Huger Lee
Mills B. Lane
Nathanael Greene

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