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  • 1. Pin Point Heritage Museum Savannah
    Pin Point is an unincorporated community in Chatham County, Georgia, United States; it is located 18 km southeast of Savannah. Pin Point is part of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area.The town is best known as the birthplace of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on June 23, 1948.A rural settlement founded by freed slaves after the American Civil War, Pin Point is 1.6 km wide and 2.5 km long. Pin Point is a small, predominantly African American community that has a well-established group of Gullah speakers. Pin Point Heritage Museum was once the Varn and Sons Oyster Canning Factory and offers guests the chance to experience the Gullah/Geechee way of life from religion, to foodways, to the fascinating history.
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  • 5. Georgia State Railroad Museum Savannah
    The Georgia State Railroad Museum is a museum in Savannah, Georgia located at a historic Central of Georgia Railroad site. It includes parts of the Central of Georgia Railroad: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities National Historic Landmark District. The complex is considered the most complete antebellum railroad complex in the United States. The museum, located at 655 Louisville Road, is part of a historic district included in the National Register of Historic Places.The museum is across the street from the Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed, also part of the historic district. The complex was constructed in 1853 by the Central of Georgia Railway before the outbreak of the American Civil War. Savannah Shops and terminal buildings were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, a...
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  • 6. Davenport House Museum Savannah
    The Isaiah Davenport house is a historic home in Savannah, Georgia, United States, built in 1820. It has been operated as a historic house museum by the Historic Savannah Foundation since 1963. The house is located at 324 East State Street, on the northwest corner of Columbia Square.
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  • 7. Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum Savannah
    This list of museum ships is a comprehensive, sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. Replica ships are listed separately in the article on ship replicas. Ships that are not museum ships, but are still actively used for excursions are included in the list of classic vessels.
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  • 8. University of Georgia's Marine Education Center and Aquarium Savannah
    The University of Georgia, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public, flagship, comprehensive research university. Its main 762-acre campus is in Athens, Georgia. Founded in 1785, it is one of three schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States.The university is classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as a Research I university. It also classifies the student body as more selective, its most selective admissions category, while the ACT Assessment Student Report places UGA in the highly selective category, the highest category. The university is tied for 13th overall among all public national universities in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report rankings, and a Kiplinger's and Princeton Review top ten...
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  • 9. Telfair Museums Telfair Academy Savannah
    Edward Telfair was the Governor of the state of Georgia between 1786 and 1787, and again from 1790 through 1793. He was a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Articles of Confederation.
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  • 10. Savannah Children's Museum 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, with a 2017 estimated population of 146,444. The Savannah metropolitan area, Georgia's third largest, had an estimated population of 387,543 in 2017.Each year Savannah attracts millions of visitors to its cobblestone streets, parks, and notable historic buildings: the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low , the Georgia Historical Societ...
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  • 11. American Prohibition Museum Savannah
    Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Slavery had been practiced in British America from early colonial days, and was legal in all Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It lasted in about half the states until 1865, when it was prohibited nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment. As an economic system, slavery was largely replaced by sharecropping. By the time of the American Revolution , the status of slave had been institutionalized as a racial caste associated with African ancestry. When the United States Constitution was ratified , a relatively small number of free people of color were ...
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  • 12. Savannah History Museum Savannah
    The city of Savannah, Georgia, the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, was established in 1733 and was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia. It is known as Georgia's first planned city and attracts millions of visitors, who enjoy the city's architecture and historic structures such as the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low , the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences , the First African Baptist Church , Congregation Mickve Israel , and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex . Today, Savannah's downtown area is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States .
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  • 14. Telfair Museums Jepson Center Savannah
    Telfair Museums, in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, was the first public art museum in the Southern United States. Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair , a prominent local citizen, and operated by the Georgia Historical Society until 1920, the museum opened in 1886 in the Telfair family’s renovated Regency style mansion, known as the Telfair Academy. Today, the museum encompasses an extensive collection of over 4,500 American and European paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, housed in three buildings: the 1818 Telfair Academy ; the 1816 Owens-Thomas House, which are both National Historic Landmarks designed by British architect William Jay in the early nineteenth century; and the contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts, designed by Moshe Safdie and completed in 2...
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