Named for Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene, who is also commemorated by the monument (2.2) in Johnson Square, Greene Ward was platted in 1799 and was home to a significant population of free African Americans during the antebellum period. It is filled with small wooden houses that recall the scale and materials that characterized all of Savannah in the colonial era.
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