Free Museum Day

On Friday's walk this huge blue heron came to visit.

Sunday while we were walking downtown were discovered that it was Free Museum Sunday.   We decided to go to some museums that had free admissions that we had not been to in a while or at all.   The first was the oldest mansion in Savannah.   It has been donated to the city of Savannah and is part of the Telfair Museum.   No photos were allowed so we don't have any to post.   However, this mansion had running water to a bathroom with a tub and shower.   It also had a bell system like the one seen on Downton Abby.   

Our last museum was the Railroad museum.

This car was for the executives of the railroad to travel in style.

It was fully furnished with a kitchen, sleeping cars, dining car and bathrooms.

A model of the old train yard.

A steam generator.   This ran much like a steam train and the railroad would use it to power other machines on the property.

The roundhouse.

An old scale with the balance with weights.

Safe.

Fire hose.

A pump cart that was running down the tracks.

The roundhouse

Ships at rest.

The third museum we visited was Savannah Museum.  We saw and interacted with an exhibit on Juliette Gordon Lowe, the founder of the Girl Scouts.   On display were many old quilts and a loom that Sabrina practiced her weaving skills.    Other exhibits were on birds, hats, the fir traders and the Revolutionary War.   Outside of this museum was the actual site of the Battle of Savannah during the Revolutionary War.   Savannah fell to British control and therefore the whole colony of Georgia became a hold for the British during the war.