King Cotton

Savannah once ranked among the world's leading cotton ports, with millions of bales moving through its riverfront; the trade made fortunes for the factors who set prices along Bay Street's Cotton Exchange.

King Cotton is a historical marker in Savannah, Chatham County, erected in 2009. 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 32.0793, -81.0818 near Savannah. The nearest cataloged historic site is Savannah's Liberty Ships and the Atlantic Bridge (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Savannah's Early Economy, Native Americans on the Georgia Coast, and The Trustees' Garden.

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