GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

SAVANNAH, GA

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The Georgia Historical Society is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1839 and is headquartered in Savannah, Georgia. The society is dedicated to preserving and promoting Georgia's history through educational programs, research, and public outreach.

The society's headquarters are located in the historic Hodgson Hall building in Savannah's Historic District. The building was constructed in 1876 and served as the original home of the Savannah Public Library. It was later acquired by the Georgia Historical Society in 1941 and has since been renovated to include a research library, archives, and museum space.

The society's collection of historical artifacts and documents includes more than 5 million items, dating back to the colonial era. The collection is available for scholarly research and is open to the public for viewing. The society also hosts public lectures, exhibits, and other events that explore Georgia's history and culture.

The Georgia Historical Society is governed by a Board of Curators and is supported by a membership of individuals and corporations. The society's mission is to promote an understanding and appreciation of Georgia's history and to inspire and educate future generations.

GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in SAVANNAH GA. US MID #8401300360

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia). Total revenue from most recent IRS 990 Form: $ 2,941,829 from tax period 201306 (YYYYMM).

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Sherman's coming! Confederates abandon Savannah's Fort Jackson The brochure says that Savannah's Fort James Jackson is the <a href="https://www.officialsavannahguide.com/old-fort-jackson" rel="noreferrer nofollow">oldest-standing brick fortress in Georgia</a>. It is roughly two miles east of the port city of Savannah that it was meant to protect. Fort Jackson strategically played second-fiddle to the more technologically advanced Fort Pulaski, which was a few more miles east at the mouth of the Savannah River. Fort Pulaski fell to the United States early in the Civil War thanks to a blindsided Confederate military command. [In fairness to the Confederacy, the Confederate command excused their gross dismissal of a gradual Union buildup adjacent to the fort, their weak supply chain, and their abject failure to hold onto the extraordinarily strategic position of Fort Pulaski, saying that their military intelligence had not anticipated going up against new-technological rifle cannons of the United States that could shoot further and more accurately than traditional cannons.] Quiet Fort Jackson remained. It became the river headquarters of the Confederate military. The fort was meant to be a killer of any U.S. ship that dared come up its section of the Savannah River. The fort was abandoned by Confederate troops when the United States Army of Tennessee and Army of Georgia under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman's_March_to_the_Sea" rel="noreferrer nofollow">marched into Savannah from Atlanta</a>.
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Halt, who goes there? Savannah, Georgia is history–big history, important history–at just about every turn. Here is Savannah River's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_James_Jackson" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Old Fort Jackson</a>.
FRO_9433 <a href="http://go.good-heavens.nl/trip?id=9afb1e5d41e8448d99577bd117e88f52&img=FRO_9433.JPG&language=en" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Description</a> of the trip can be found on my website. <a href="http://go.good-heavens.nl/trip?id=9afb1e5d41e8448d99577bd117e88f52&img=FRO_9433.JPG&language=nl" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Beschrijving</a> van de reis staat op mijn website. Komt voor in het verhaal / Is part of the story (in Dutch): <a href="http://go.good-heavens.nl/story?id=701ab60db01d4ebcb080b03a00b0609e&language=nl" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Is dit de VS?</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=32.073223,-81.091077" rel="noreferrer nofollow">@Google Maps</a>
Mercer Williams House Museum 5675 <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_House_" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_House_</a>(Savannah,_Georgia) Mercer House (now the Mercer Williams House Museum) is located at 429 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia.[3] Completed in 1868, it occupies the southwestern civic block of Monterey Square. The house was the scene of the 1981 killing of Danny Hansford by the home's owner, Jim Williams, a story that is retold in the 1994 John Berendt book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The house is also featured in the movie adaptation of the book, released three years later.
Port of Savannah Savannah's port is next to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, where this landscape that is so rich in birds and wildlife has been preserved. The refuge was one of my favorite stops.
Savannah: America's first planned city? Established in 1733, <a href="https://visitsavannah.com/article/history-savannah" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Savannah claims</a> it is America's first planned city.† Georgia's founder and member of Britain's Parliament, Mr. James Oglethorpe designed the layout of Savannah, which was the first settlement in 1733 of the brand-new colony of Georgia. The Oxford graduate envisioned a land where the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment could be realized. The <a href="https://www.asce.org/about-civil-engineering/history-and-heritage/historic-landmarks/city-plan-of-savannah#:~:text=The city plan of Savannah, emulated by urban planners today." rel="noreferrer nofollow">American Society of Civil Engineers observes</a> of Savannah's original city layout: "The repetitive non-hierarchal placement of wards, squares, and equal-sized lots points to the utopian ideals of the colony." -- †Note: With due respect to the deeply historical and great city of Savannah, <a href="https://connecticuthistory.org/towns-page/new-haven/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">New Haven, Connecticut (est. 1638) says it is America's first planned city</a>. And didn't William Penn do something with Philadelphia? Correct me if I'm wrong but I also vaguely recall that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_St._Augustine,_Florida" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Saint Augustine in Florida</a> (est. 1565) predated Jamestown and Plymouth settlements. Besides a big European-style brick fort, didn't it have a planned Spanish grid layout? But hey, Spanish-colony and Catholic. Doesn't count, right?😉 Having said that, this tourist saw a clear difference between the Enlightenment-inspired layout of Georgia's Savannah (see American Society of Civil Engineers comment above: e.g. non-hierarchical, parks equally available for each, abolitionist, equal-sized property plots) and Florida's pre-Enlightenment settlement of Saint Augustine.
Gingerbread house with lemon frosting Gingerbread House (1899), Savannah, Georgia
Tybee lighthouse
FRO_9469 <a href="http://go.good-heavens.nl/trip?id=9afb1e5d41e8448d99577bd117e88f52&img=FRO_9469.JPG&language=en" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Description</a> of the trip can be found on my website. <a href="http://go.good-heavens.nl/trip?id=9afb1e5d41e8448d99577bd117e88f52&img=FRO_9469.JPG&language=nl" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Beschrijving</a> van de reis staat op mijn website. Komt voor in het verhaal / Is part of the story (in Dutch): <a href="http://go.good-heavens.nl/story?id=3c7504aed7af440896c016e95b5e71d9&language=nl" rel="noreferrer nofollow">African american</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=32.081047,-81.095557" rel="noreferrer nofollow">@Google Maps</a>

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GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
501 WHITAKER ST
SAVANNAH
GA
31401-4830

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MID # 8401300360
Name GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Alternate Name GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Classification Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Southeastern
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) 580593403
NTEECC A82
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM) 201306
INCOME 2,942,375
REVENUE 2,941,829
LAT/LONG 32.070386, -81.096678
CODES FIPS State Code: 13
FIPS County Code: 051
US Census Tract: 011200
US Census Block: 1004