“Liberty” 1775

The schooner Liberty, commissioned by Georgia's Provincial Congress in 1775, made one of the Revolution's first ordered captures in Southern waters, seizing a British vessel off Tybee whose gunpowder was shipped north.

“Liberty” 1775 is a historical marker in Savannah, Chatham County, erected in 2021. 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 32.0802, -81.0844 near Savannah. The nearest cataloged historic site is Ironclads and Gunboats of the Savannah River Squadron (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The Liberty, Crossing the Savannah, and 1996 Olympic Yachting Cauldron.

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