Savannah, Georgia - Florence Martus - Waving Girl Statue HD (2017)
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 wave a handkerchief by day and a lantern by night. According to legend, not a ship was missed in her forty-four years on watch. A statue of Martus by the sculptor Felix de Weldon has been erected in Morrell Park on the historic riverfront of Savannah.
Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. A strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia's fifth-largest city and third-largest metropolitan area.
Each year Savannah attracts millions of visitors to its cobblestone streets, parks, and notable historic buildings: the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA), the Georgia Historical Society (the oldest continually operating historical society in the South), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South's first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African-American Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third oldest synagogue in America), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America).
Savannah's downtown area, which includes the Savannah Historic District, the Savannah Victorian Historic District, and 22 parklike squares, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States (designated by the U.S. government in 1966). Downtown Savannah largely retains the original town plan prescribed by founder James Oglethorpe (a design now known as the Oglethorpe Plan). Savannah was the host city for the sailing competitions during the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta.
Waving Girl Savannah Georgia Geocache (GCNW)
In this episode it is all about the location and not the cache. The Geocache is what brings you to the location of Waving Girl in Savannah Georgia. Waving Girl is in a small park off of River Street. There is a great view of the bridge and the are where the 1996 Olympic Games Yachting completion took place. Join me as I learn about this locations History.
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Factors Walk - Savannah, Georgia Coast, Georgia, United States
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Factors Walk Savannah
An historic walkway where cotton merchants (called factors) transacted their business; now an area for shops, offices and hotels.
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- Savannah, Ohio, United States
- Savannah, Georgia Coast, Georgia, United States
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- River WAlk - Factors Walk by Lroff from a blog titled Beautiful Savannah, GE
- The Factors Walk by Momadunc from a blog titled MLK Parade and Walking Tour of Savannah
- On Factors Walk by Ldat7 from a blog titled The Thunderbird and the Waving Girl
- Factors Walk 2 by Ldat7 from a blog titled The Thunderbird and the Waving Girl
- Factors Walk by Ldat7 from a blog titled The Thunderbird and the Waving Girl
THE WAVING GIRL by Bill Crowder
The closer Christians get to Christ, the closer they get to one another… In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a familiar sight greeted ships as they pulled into the port of Savannah, Georgia. That sight was Florence Martus, “The Waving Girl.” For 44 years, Florence greeted the great ships from around the world, waving a handkerchief by day or a lantern by night. Today, a statue of Florence and her faithful dog stands in Savannah’s Morrell Park, permanently welcoming incoming vessels.
There is something in a warm welcome that speaks of acceptance. In Romans 15:7, Paul urged his readers: “Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you” (niv). Paul had in view our treatment of each other as followers of Christ, for in verses 5-6 he challenged us to live in harmony with one another. The key is to have “the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” (niv).
Our acceptance of our fellow believers in Christ demonstrates more than just our love for each other—it reflects the great love of the One who has permanently welcomed us into His family.
Read: Romans 15:1-7
Text: Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. —Romans 15:7 niv
Father, give me a heart for my brothers and sisters in Christ. Please give us, together, a heart for one another, so that we will love and honor You in all we do.
Insight:
In Romans 14:1–15:7 Paul addressed a conflict between “strong” believers and “weak” believers that threatened the unity of the Roman church. The dispute was not over any core doctrines, but over some Old Testament laws (Rom. 14:1-6). The “strong”—or mature in faith—were those who believed that Christians no longer needed to observe these laws (vv. 2,15). Paul asked the mature believers not to despise the less mature, and the weak not to condemn the strong (v. 3). He called for tolerance and acceptance of each other’s convictions and practices. In today’s passage he lays the responsibility on the mature to be sensitive to the convictions of those weaker in faith and to help build them up (15:1-2). - Sim Kay Tee
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Historic Savannah Women
Meet the Groundbreaking Savannah Women who most influenced what our fair city is today: Quirky, Graceful and known worldwide for unequivocal Beauty. Includes Juliette Low (Girl Scouts), Paula Deen (Southern Chef), Flannery O'Conner (Writer), Sema Wilkes (Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House), Florence Martus (The Waving Girl), The Lady Chablis and many others. - created at
Missing Bird Girl Statue Former Location Revealed at Bonaventure Cemetery
This is the former location of the Bird Girl Statue made famous on the cover of the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The original statue is now in a museum in downtown Savannah Georgia at the request of the owners to prevent anything from happening to it.
Savannah: Garden of Good and Evil (Bonaventure Cemetery)
Bonaventure Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, east of Savannah, Georgia.
The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and in the movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, based on the book. It is the largest of the city's municipal cemeteries, containing nearly 160 acres (0.65 km2).
The entrance to the cemetery is located at 330 Bonaventure Road. Immediately inside the gates is the large and ornate Gaston's Tomb.
The cemetery is located on the site of a plantation originally owned by John Mullryne. On March 10, 1846, Commodore Josiah Tattnall, Jr., sold the 600-acre (2.4 km2) Bonaventure Plantation and its private cemetery to Peter Wiltberger. Major William H. Wiltberger, the son of Peter, formed the Evergreen Cemetery Company on June 12, 1868. On July 7, 1907 the City of Savannah purchased the Evergreen Cemetery Company, making the cemetery public and changing the name to Bonaventure Cemetery.
In 1867 John Muir began his Thousand Mile Walk to Florida and the Gulf. In October he sojourned for six days and nights in the Bonaventure cemetery, sleeping upon graves overnight, this being the safest and cheapest accommodation that he could find while he waited for money to be expressed from home. He found the cemetery even then breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring and wrote a lengthy chapter upon it, Camping in the Tombs.
The most conspicuous glory of Bonaventure is its noble avenue of live-oaks. They are the most magnificent planted trees I have ever seen, about fifty feet high and perhaps three or four feet in diameter, with broad spreading leafy heads. The main branches reach out horizontally until they come together over the driveway, embowering it throughout its entire length, while each branch is adorned like a garden with ferns, flowers, grasses, and dwarf palmettos.
But of all the plants of these curious tree-gardens the most striking and characteristic is the so-called Long Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). It drapes all the branches from top to bottom, hanging in long silvery-gray skeins, reaching a length of not less than eight or ten feet, and when slowly waving in the wind they produce a solemn funereal effect singularly impressive.
There are also thousands of smaller trees and clustered bushes, covered almost from sight in the glorious brightness of their own light. The place is half surrounded by the salt marshes and islands of the river, their reeds and sedges making a delightful fringe. Many bald eagles roost among the trees along the side of the marsh. Their screams are heard every morning, joined with the noise of crows and the songs of countless warblers, hidden deep in their dwellings of leafy bowers. Large flocks of butterflies, flies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. The whole place seems like a center of life. The dead do not reign there alone.
Bonaventure to me is one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the Western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana and Kentucky, the dark mysterious Savannah cypress forests; but never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the tillandsia-draped oaks of Bonaventure.
I gazed awe-stricken as one new-arrived from another world. Bonaventure is called a graveyard, a town of the dead, but the few graves are powerless in such a depth of life. The rippling of living waters, the song of birds, the joyous confidence of flowers, the calm, undisturbable grandeur of the oaks, mark this place of graves as one of the Lord’s most favored abodes of life and light.
The cover photograph for the best selling book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, taken by Jack Leigh, featured an evocative sculpture of a young girl, the so-called Bird Girl, that had been in the cemetery, essentially unnoticed for over 50 years. After the publication of the book, the sculpture was relocated from the cemetery in 1997 for display in Telfair Museums in Savannah. In late 2014, the statue was moved to a dedicated space in the Telfair Museums' Jepson Center for the Arts on West York Street, in Savannah.
Tour through Secret Area of Laurel Grove Cemetery
Savannah Monument Honors Haitians (Georgia, U.S.A.) - Oct 11, 2009
In 1779 about 1,500 Haitians came from Haiti to the U.S. - They fought and died to save the U.S. Revolution at a time when the American troops were almost destroyed by the British. A monument was erected in Franklin Square in Savanah, Georgia on Cotober 11, 2009 to honor the Haitian soldiers who gave their lives to bring the United States back to life.
Women of Savannah
Meet the Groundbreaking Savannah Women who most influenced what our fair city is today: Quirky, Graceful and known worldwide for unequivocal Beauty. Includes Juliette Low (Girl Scouts), Paula Deen (Southern Chef), Flannery O'Conner (Writer), Sema Wilkes (Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House), Florence Martus (The Waving Girl), The Lady Chablis and many others.
Echo Square - Savannah, Georgia
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Little Gracie and the Missing Moss: Savannah Hauntings at Johnson Square
On a bluff overlooking a river that bears its name
lies a city of secret histories and ghostly acclaim.
Oh Savannah, you city of spectral delight,
how you can draw a chill on a hot, humid night.
Northernmost on Bull Street you'll find Johnson Square,
its haunted breath hangs heavy in the air.
The city boasts Spanish Moss hanging from every tree,
but in Johnson Square there is no hanging moss to see.
Some claim the moss won't grow over the bones of Nathaniel Greene,
others say it is for a child whose phantom form is often seen.
In the late nineteenth century, little Gracie lived on the square,
and she loved to greet any travelers that she would see there.
Despite her sweet nature death came and swept her away,
But travelers still see her waving on Johnson Square to this day.
And if you dare go as the stars start to pepper the sky,
you just might see this ghostly girl out of the corner of your eye.
Mike's Breakfast
Mike's breakfast at home on his patio over looking the canal to Bal Harbor, then Tampa Bay. The immediate includes a Bird Girl statue from Savannah GA, where she played a part in the Movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The garden also has a statue of a little boy w/ an umbrella, which originally belonged to Mike's father, Francis Hickey. The statue brought Francis fond memories of Michael as a small boy.
The far view includs the water, boats, flags, birds and clouds always changing and moving.
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The Pirates House and Trustees Garden in Savannah Georgia
The oldest house in Georgia is known as The Pirates House. It is next to the 1733 Trustees Garden.
Savannah Waves, written and performed by Fran Snyder
Inspired by the statue of Florence Martus on River Street in Savannah Georgia,
Fran wrote this haunting song. When he performed it in our living room it inspired me. With the gracious permissions of the artists in the credits, I now hope to inspire you.
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Life was great! We visited 18 states, experienced things we never thought possible, hiked through canyons, seen dolphins in the wild, sat on a cactus and learned SO much together as a family.
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Shark Tank Water Slide at Atlantis
Shark Tank water slide at Aquaventure water park at Atlantis Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas.
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