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Sited at the Trustees' Garden, America's first public experimental garden, where colonial botanists trialed mulberries, grapes, medicinal herbs, and New World plants brought from the West Indies and South America to test what the young colony might grow.
New World Medical Plants is a historical marker in Savannah, Chatham County, erected in 1983. 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 32.0785, -81.0842 near Savannah. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Trustees' Garden (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The Georgia Medical Society, Old Harbor Light, and The Georgia Medical Society.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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