Savannah Historic District Guide

James Oglethorpe laid out Savannah in 1733 as America’s first planned city, on a grid of open squares, and 22 of them survive — pockets of green shaded by enormous live oaks hung with Spanish moss, ringed by antebellum mansions and church spires. You walk it. That’s the whole magic: a historic district you can cross on foot, square to square, past cobblestone riverfront, moss-draped cemeteries, and porches made for sitting. It’s romantic to the point of unfair, it’s genuinely walkable, and it has quietly become one of the great food-and-cocktail towns of the South. No other American city looks or feels quite like it.