Nantahalan wrote:
My hometown. Besides online searches as suggested, for an overview I’d go to the visitor center for maps, brochures, and a visit to the history museum there. You’ll learn about the variety of museums. Shops will have picture books.
Next I’d take a tour. You may be pleased by Grayline—if it is working in these Covid times.
Might find some interesting info, exhibits, and publications at the Georgia Historical Society.
Unexpectedly, I got my best feel for the city as a teenager with a job that led me to drive up and down as well as across every street in the old part, say between Bay Street and Victory Drive. This is a little beyond the historic district, I recall.
Walks:
Waterfront from the Waving Girl to the end of the cobblestones.
Broughton Street—the original main shopping district. Also very interesting and historic sites between Bay and Broughton.
Bull Street with its squares and sights. Of course, every square is worth a visit.
The buildings and art in the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences and nearby Jepson Art Museum.
Bull Street near the public library to see the Cord Asendorf aka Gingerbread House in Steamboat Gothic. (It was bare, gray wood when I rode my bike to the library in the late 50s.
Along the Wilmington River in both Thunderbolt and Bonaventure Cemetery.
Books:
The Savannah Walking Tour and Guidebook would be good to review before you get there. Succinct with a good map. Plausible Google “books about Savannah.”
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. Know locally as “The Book” about which one of my blue blood friends remarked, “It’s just what happens when widows who drink too much talk to Yankee writers.” Maybe so, but it certainly boosted tourism!
Museums: besides the ones downtown, I’m partial to the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Fort Pulaski, Fort Jackson, and the Midway Museum (down Highway 17, an interesting trip in itself).
Enjoy!
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Many thanks! Good advice.