Savannah's Early Economy

Georgia's Trustees envisioned Savannah producing silk and wine for England, but those experiments faltered, and rice and timber became the colony's real economic foundation.

Savannah's Early Economy 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 32.0797, -81.0829 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 Native Americans on the Georgia Coast, 1996 Olympic Yachting Cauldron, and Crossing the Savannah.

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