Historical Marker

Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary (Historical Marker)

Savannah · Chatham County

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Designated in 1981 about nineteen miles off the Georgia coast, Gray's Reef protects one of the Southeast's largest nearshore live-bottom reefs, a sandstone-ledge habitat for over 200 fish species and wintering right whales.

About this site

Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary is a historical marker in Savannah, Chatham County. It is one of 339 historical markers documented in Chatham County, among 480 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.0815, -81.0896 near Savannah. The nearest cataloged historic site is Solomon's Lodge No. 1 F.& A.M. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Confederate Savannah, The Invention of the Cotton Gin, and Olde Pink House.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

Also at or near Savannah, Chatham County

“Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary” names 2 distinct records in Chatham County. This page is the historical marker in Savannah. The others:

📍 32.0815, -81.0896 · Savannah, Chatham County
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