Savannah, GA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

American towns don't come much nicer than SAVANNAH , seventeen miles up the Savannah River from the ocean, on the border with South Carolina. The appealing Historic District , ranged around Spanish-moss-swathed squares, formed the core of the original city, and today boasts examples of just about every architectural style of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the atmospheric cobbled waterfront on the Savannah River , key to the postwar economy, is edged by towering old cotton warehouses. Savannah was founded in 1733 by James Oglethorpe as the first settlement of the new British colony of … more »