Savannah Historic District

We spent the day exploring the historic district in downtown Savannah today. We started with a guided "orientation" tour aboard a motorized trolly, then continued on our own on foot. Such beautiful old buildings and these lovely "squares" every few blocks that are mini parks with gorgeous old live oaks, fountains, statues or monuments, very cool. This slide show contains the various building and park square pictures we took.


This is the house General Sherman lived in during his occupation of Savannah in the Civil War.

And this flower bed is where the bus stop bench was located for the filming of the movie Forest Gump.

And this is Paula Dean's Lady and Sons restaurant where we had lunch. All three floors are in use as dining rooms, each with slightly different decor. We were on the third floor by a window. We opted for the buffet which is just good old country cooking - fried chicken, sweet potatoes, black eyed peas, collard greens, mac n cheese, lima beans....It was a good choice for today. The weather was rather dreary, clouds, rain, unseasonably cold. So comfort food was just what we needed. All was delicious. The collard greens were my favorite. I've only tasted them once before and I liked them well enough, but Paula's are awesome.



We could spend days strolling around here, but tomorrow we plan to visit a couple of forts that were key in defending the Savannah river during the civil war.