Savannah, Georgia, 1734 – Antique Wall Map
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Savannah, Georgia, 1734, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: A view of Savannah as it stood the 29th of March 1734
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Savannah, Georgia, 1734
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Savannah in 1734 was barely a year old, a settlement of wooden houses that James Oglethorpe had laid out on a bluff above the Savannah River in the newly chartered colony of Georgia. The town was founded in early 1733, and its grid of wards and squares, still visible in the city today, was the trustees' attempt to impose order on a frontier where few settlers had farmed before. Colonists were expected to produce silk, wine, and other crops, and the trustees' bans on rum and enslaved labor shaped daily life and frequent disputes among the settlers. Relations with the Yamacraw people, whose leader Tomochichi had agreed to the site, were central to the town's survival. The 1734 plan credited to Peter Gordon is one of the earliest records of how the place looked in those first years.
| Created / published | 1734 |
|---|---|
| Creator | gordon, peter |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Savannah, Georgia, drawn in 1734. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,368 × 6,144 px · prints to 28 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | A view of Savannah as it stood the 29th of March 1734 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488323 |
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