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Orleans Square

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1815

Commemorating the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, Orleans Square reflects the dramatic changes that have occurred in the western area of downtown Savannah. Matthew Lufurrow constructed the city’s first brick cistern here in 1833, with a capacity of 12,000 gallons of water, to replace the small 800-gallon wooden cisterns built just three years earlier. From 1877 until 1946 streetcar tracks crossed the middle of the square in line with Barnard Street. The walls of the Civic Center’s large parking lot now line two sides of the square, and the fountain in its center was added in 1989 to commemorate Savannah’s early German immigrants.

Writing Credits

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

Harper Fowlkes House (Aaron Champion House)
Oglethorpe House, SCAD (Downtowner Motor Inn)
First Baptist Church
Eastman-Hull-Stoddard-Barrow House (Moses Eastman House)
Savannah Civic Center

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Orleans Square", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-6.1.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 102-103.

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