When Elbert Ward was laid out in 1801, it initiated the first expansion of the Savannah plan in a southward direction. The ward was named after Samuel Elbert, a Savannah-born Revolutionary War hero and governor of Georgia. By the early twentieth century Elbert Ward was home to orphanages, boarding houses, a Salvation Army hotel, and warehouses, replaced by automobile-related service buildings after Montgomery Street became U.S. 17 in the 1930s.
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