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Built around 1856 by slave trader John Montmollin to hold and sell enslaved people, the building was confiscated after Savannah's 1864 fall and reopened in 1865 as the Bryan Free School, one of Georgia's first legal schools for Black children.
The Montmollin Building and Bryan School is a historical marker in Savannah, Chatham County, erected in 2024. 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 32.0808, -81.0942 near Savannah. The nearest cataloged historic site is The First Act of Alcohol Prohibition in America (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Evacuation of Savannah, Jonathan Bryan, and Haitian Monument.
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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