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Savannah
Georgia's historic port city of oak-shaded squares
Savannah is Georgia's oldest city and one of the great preserved colonial towns of the American South, founded in 1733 on a bluff above the Savannah River near the Atlantic. James Oglethorpe laid it out on a famous grid of open squares - a planned pattern of leafy public parks still intact today, shaded by live oaks draped in Spanish moss.
A working seaport from the start, Savannah sits about 18 miles up a tidal river from the ocean and remains one of the busiest container ports in the country. Its antebellum mansions, ironwork, and cobbled riverfront survived the Civil War largely intact, making the historic district one of the largest in the nation.