After we had our delicious lunch and strolled along Rivers Street to take in the views, we used our walking tour book to do Walking Tour Number 1 which gives the details of sites and buildings (The book title: The Savannah Guidebook 4 Unique Walking Tours) The tour starts on Bay Street at the bench which marks where General Oglethorpe lived in a tent as he planned out the city of Savannah.
From Oglethorpe's bench the tour continued down Bay Street through squares and by the old original government buildings all the way through the old city.
Factor's Row and Factors Walk. These buildings used to house cotton and the offices of the cotton brokers. Now it is the location of restaurants and stores. From the walk, one can see the stone streets below. Lower streets actually were underneath these walkways.
In Emmet Park is a tribute to an Irish Patriot who was hanged in Dublin by the British after leading an uprising intended to gain Irish Independence. The Celtic Croos is in a peaceful location and the many Irish descendants in Savannah come here to reflect.
The Vietnam Memorial is a peaceful reflecting pond with a sculpture made from boots, a gun, and a helmet.
At the end of Emmet Park is Old Harbor Light which was installed to help ships navigate past old sunken ships in the channel. The British sunk these ships when they had control of Georgia during the Revolutionary War. The goal was to protect Savannah from invasion from the French and American Navies. The anchors in the park were part of the sunken ships which were removed from the channel over the years.
Up the street and around the corner were some of the oldest areas of Savannah. Trustee's Garden was and experimental farm where crops such as peaches, rice, cotton, grapes, flax, hemp, indigo, olives and mulberry trees were to be produced. Originally, Savannah was to be an source for silk. This ended up not being a successful crop and soon afterwards, the garden was closed. The Herb House is considered to be the oldest surviving home in Georgia and was the home to the gardener of the Trustee's Garden.
After the Trustee's Garden was closed, the Herb House became a seaman's tavern. Later it became the Pirates' House which is famed to be where Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island. It is rumored that he found his inspiration from what he saw happening in the Pirate's House.
Today the Pirates' House is a restaurant, but originally it was a seaman's tavern rumored to have rum smuggling tunnels underneath it. Story has it that the pirates would increase their crew numbers by smuggling drunk men to their boats through these same rum smuggling tunnels which led to the ships in the harbor. The unsuspecting victim would wake up on a pirate boat at sea and become a pirate or perish.
From Oglethorpe's bench the tour continued down Bay Street through squares and by the old original government buildings all the way through the old city.
Factor's Row and Factors Walk. These buildings used to house cotton and the offices of the cotton brokers. Now it is the location of restaurants and stores. From the walk, one can see the stone streets below. Lower streets actually were underneath these walkways.
In Emmet Park is a tribute to an Irish Patriot who was hanged in Dublin by the British after leading an uprising intended to gain Irish Independence. The Celtic Croos is in a peaceful location and the many Irish descendants in Savannah come here to reflect. 
The Vietnam Memorial is a peaceful reflecting pond with a sculpture made from boots, a gun, and a helmet. 
At the end of Emmet Park is Old Harbor Light which was installed to help ships navigate past old sunken ships in the channel. The British sunk these ships when they had control of Georgia during the Revolutionary War. The goal was to protect Savannah from invasion from the French and American Navies. The anchors in the park were part of the sunken ships which were removed from the channel over the years.
Up the street and around the corner were some of the oldest areas of Savannah. Trustee's Garden was and experimental farm where crops such as peaches, rice, cotton, grapes, flax, hemp, indigo, olives and mulberry trees were to be produced. Originally, Savannah was to be an source for silk. This ended up not being a successful crop and soon afterwards, the garden was closed. The Herb House is considered to be the oldest surviving home in Georgia and was the home to the gardener of the Trustee's Garden. 
After the Trustee's Garden was closed, the Herb House became a seaman's tavern. Later it became the Pirates' House which is famed to be where Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island. It is rumored that he found his inspiration from what he saw happening in the Pirate's House.
Today the Pirates' House is a restaurant, but originally it was a seaman's tavern rumored to have rum smuggling tunnels underneath it. Story has it that the pirates would increase their crew numbers by smuggling drunk men to their boats through these same rum smuggling tunnels which led to the ships in the harbor. The unsuspecting victim would wake up on a pirate boat at sea and become a pirate or perish.
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