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Luten Hill Neighborhood

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1887 to 1950s. Skidaway Rd. at E. Montgomery Cross Rd., Sandfly

This residential community is owned by the descendants of a former Worsmloe slave, Mathilda. Her son Ben married Chaney Ownes, the daughter of former slaves from South Carolina, and the couple acquired the land along the streetcar tracks by Skidaway Road in 1887, building homes for themselves and their seven children. The houses demonstrate the quality of early-twentieth-century African American craftsmanship in Sandfly and the coastal South. The modest wood-framed or concrete-block homes, seemingly built in a group without apparent order, are actually sited intentionally to facilitate family life. These nearly century-old Luten homes stand as a testament to the architectural and community legacy of a multigenerational family that helped build Sandfly. Representative houses are on Skidaway Road, including number 7337 (1910), numbers 7314 and 7321 (1920s), and number 7239 (1925). The houses at 7318 and 7345 Skidaway Road (1950s) reflect the continued vitality of the neighborhood following World War II.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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What's Nearby

Isle of Hope Union Baptist Church
Noble Jones House
Wormsloe Entrance Complex
Wormsloe Library (Wymberley Jones De Renne Library)
Wormsloe House

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Luten Hill Neighborhood", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-19.3.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 267-268.

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