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Museums and Galleries
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TELFAIR MUSEUM 121 Barnard at Telfair Square, Savannah 31401 The oldest museum in
the South. It is located in a mansion designed by noted English architect William
Jay. The Telfair Museum of Art traces it's history from 1886 when the Telfair family
home opened to the public as an art museum and school. It now has three diverse
sites - the original building, the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the
Owens-Thomas House. 912.790.8800
www.telfair.org
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JEPSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS 207 W. York, Savannah 31401 Designed by internationally
acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie, the 64,000 sq. ft. Jepson Center is a state-of-the-art
museum that also features sculpture gardens, auditorium and museum store. 912.790.8800
www.telfair.org
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Roundhouse Railroad Museum 901 West Harris Street, Savannah One of the oldest and
most complete antebellum railroad manufacturing and repair facilities still in existence.
912.651.6823
www.roundhouserailroadmuseum.org
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Fort Jackson, also known as Old Fort Jackson 1 Fort Jackson Road, Savannah The fort
is one of only eight Second System fortifications (a series of forts built prior
to the War of 1812) still standing in the United States. It served as headquarters
for the Confederate Savannah River defenses during the American Civil War. 912.232.3945
www.oldfortjackson |
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The Savannah History Museum 303 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah The Savannah
History Museum showcases the city’s history from its founding in 1733 to the present
day. You can see exhibits about the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, rare dugout
canoes from the 1800s, and a changing exhibit of women’s fashions from the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. 912.651.6825
Savannah
History Museum
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Ships of the Sea Museum 41 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, This museum is
located in the historic Scarbrough House, designed by noted English architect William
Jay and built iin 1819 for the princiipal owner of the Savannah, the first steamship
to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, founded in 1966,
exhibits ship models, paintings and maritime antiques, principally from the great
era of Atlantic trade and travel between England and America during the 18th and
19th centuries. 912.232.1511
www.shipsofthesea.org
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Tybee Lighthouse and Museum 30 Meddin Drive, N End, Tybee Island, Ordered by General
James Oglethorpe, Governor of the 13th colony, in 1732, the Tybee Island Light Station
has been guiding mariners safe entrance into the Savannah River for over 270 years.
The Tybee Island Light Station is one of America's most intact having all of its
historic support buildings on its five-acre site. The third in a series of lighthouses
built at this spot since 1733.The current lighthouse was completed in 1773. 912.786.4077
www.tybeelighthouse.org
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Wormsloe Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Road, Savannah, GA Special events and historic
re-enactments are often held at Wormsloe. The tabby ruins of a house built between
1739 and 1745 by Noble Jones, one of Georgia's first colonists. Iin 1736 Oglethorpe
and the Trustees leased 500 acres to Jones, who began work on a combination plantation/fort
along the Skidaway River. Two other colonists, John Fallowfield and Henry Parker,
joined Jones on this "Isle of Hope." 912.353.3023
www.wormsloe.org
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The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum 175 Bourne Avenue, Pooler On January 28, 1942,
fifty-three days after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, the 8th Air Force was
officially activated in the National Guard Armory on Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia.The
Museum honors the men and women who helped defeat Nazi aggression by serving in
or supporting the greatest air armada the world had ever seen – the 8th Air Force.
These individuals pledged themselves to honor the courage and commitment of more
than 350,000 members of the 8th Air Force. Of this number, 26,000 were killed in
action and 28,000 became prisoners of war during World War II. 912.748.8888
Mighty Eighth Air Force
Heritage Museum
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