Historical Marker

Savannah Waterfront

Savannah · Chatham County · Erected 2001

The roadside stories worth pulling over for.

The Story

Savannah's bluff-top wharves and the upper-level Factors' Walk, where cotton factors kept their offices, made the city one of the world's busiest cotton ports in the 1800s before the boll weevil gutted the trade in the 1920s.

About this site

Savannah Waterfront is a historical marker in Savannah, Chatham County, erected in 2001. 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 32.0816, -81.0910 near Savannah. The nearest cataloged historic site is Savannah and the Slave Trade (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Jewish Colonists, Savannah in the American Revolution, and One Building - Many Stories.

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

📍 32.0816, -81.0910 · Savannah, Chatham County
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