Named for William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham, an important British politician during the Trustee era, Chatham Ward was laid out together with Monterey Ward in 1847. Like Pulaski Ward to its north, the western edge of Chatham Ward is significantly compressed because of prior development in the adjoining garden lots. Thus, the western tythings comprise three rather than five lots, and the western trust lots are less than seventy feet deep. Yet from within the ward and especially the square, the orderly symmetry of the Savannah plan masks its truncated nature.
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