Lillian Chaplin Bragg papers, 1858-1967.

Martus, Florence, 1868-1943

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Florence Martus (1868–1943), also known as "the Waving Girl", took it upon herself to be the unofficial greeter of all ships that entered and left the Port of Savannah, Georgia, between 1887 and 1931. A few years after she began waving at passing sailors, she moved in with her brother, a light keeper, at his small white cottage about five miles up the river from Fort Pulaski. From her rustic home on Elba Island, a tiny piece of land in the Savannah River near the Atlantic Ocean, Martus would wav...

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Bethesda Home for Boys (Savannah, Ga.)

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The Bethesda Home for Boys was founded in Savannah, Georgia, in 1740, by Reverend George Whitefield. It suffered three fires before it was sold (1805) and rebuilt (1854) on land donated by the Union Society. It has been known as "Whitefield's House of Mercy," the Orphan House Estate, Bethesda College, the Bethesda Orphan House (1902), Bethesda Orphan Asylum, the Bethesda School for Boys, and Bethesda Orphanage. Ole W. Burroughs was the school's director, 1915-1945. A Mr. Quarterman was superinte...

Hibernian Society (Charleston, S.C.)

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Colonial Park (Cemetery : Savannah, Ga.)

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Coburn, Charles

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Charles Coburn (1877-1961) a character actor and Georgia native, enjoyed a lengthy career on stage, screen, and radio that reached its height in the 1940s and 1950s, when he was in his sixties and seventies. From the description of Charles Coburn signed documents, 1940-1941. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 319689627 Charles Douville Coburn (1877-1961), Georgia-born stage and screen actor, manager, director, and producer. Coburn founded the Mohawk Drama Festival ...

Oglethorpe Sanitarium (Savannah, Ga.)

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Pirates' House (Savannah, Ga.)

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Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927

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Juliette Gordon Low, also known as Daisy, (b. Oct. 31, 1860, Savannah, Ga.-d Jan. 17, 1927, Savannah, Ga.) was the founder of the Girl Scouts of America. She was the daughter of William and Eleanor Gordon of Savannah. She married William Mackay Low in 1886. She founded the Girl Scouts in 1912. She died in Savannah in 1927 and is buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery....

Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences Architectural Records Committee was established in 1945 to prepared measured drawings of historic houses in Savannah, to obtain as many existing original plans or measured drawings of early houses as possible, and to collect as many photographs as possible of early houses. The Committee collected some original architectural plans, prepared measured drawings of others, and obtained copies of some of the measured drawing of Savannah buildings which had been...

Mordecai Sheftall Cemetery (Savannah, Ga.)

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Riley, Alice, d. 1735

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Catholic Cemetery (Savannah, Ga.)

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Tomo-chi-chi, -1739

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Bragg, Lillian Chaplin, 1895-1967.

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Lillian Chaplin Bragg (1895-1967) was the daughter of Nellie Wallis and Albert Vernon Chaplin, Superintendent of Bethesda Orphan Home from 1876 to 1914. She was a teacher and a journalist for the Savannah Morning News, and wrote many articles on Savannah and Georgia History, several books on local history, and short stories, many of which have some basis in events which occurred in Chatham County. From the description of Lillian Chaplin Bragg papers, 1858-1967. (Georgia Historical So...

Bartow, Francis S. (Francis Stebbins), 1816-1861

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Owens-Thomas House (Savannah, Ga.)

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Bonaventure Cemetery (Savannah, Ga.)

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Chaplin family.

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Wanderer (Schooner)

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Wanderer was the next to last documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people. Clotilda, which transported 110 people from Dahomey in 1860, is the last known ship to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States. Originally built in New York as a pleasure schooner, The Wanderer was purchased by Southern businessman Charles...