001 · East Liberty Lane
Benjamin Van Clark
519 East Liberty Lane, Savannah
One bedroom. One bathroom. Six children. Rose Clark was a maid. Her son Benjamin was nineteen years old when he organized three marches a day through downtown Savannah.
002 · Gilbert Street
Hosea Williams
3115 Gilbert Street, Savannah
The city directory lists him in three words. Chem. US Dept Agriculture. His children asked why they couldn't sit at a lunch counter. That question changed American history.
003 · East Gaston Street
Fredi Washington
520 East Gaston Street, Savannah
Hollywood told her to pass as white. She refused. She co-founded the Negro Actors Guild. Her address was misrecorded in every index — DEED read the census image directly.
004 · West Gaston Street
Al Jaffee
119 West Gaston Street, Savannah
He grew up here until his mother took him to Lithuania. He came back. He invented the Mad Magazine Fold-In. He held the Guinness World Record. The town his mother took him to was destroyed by the Nazis.
005 · Taylor Street
Walter Sanford Scott
540 Taylor Street, Savannah
His father was a barber. By 1920 he was Bank President. Three words in the New Georgia Encyclopedia describe him — local Black millionaire. No biography has ever been written about him.
006 · East 32nd Street
Myers Anderson
542 East 32nd Street, Savannah
He built this house for $600. In 1955 a seven year old arrived with everything he owned in a paper bag. That boy became a United States Supreme Court Justice. No published biography had ever identified this address.
007 · Montgomery Street
Lucius E. Williams
1509 Montgomery Street, Savannah
He signed his own name on the voter registration record. He built the first Black bank in America to hold one million dollars. W.E.B. Du Bois wrote to him. His house is now a discount mart.
008 · Falligant Street
Florence Martus
162 Falligant Street, Thunderbolt
For 44 years she waved at every ship. In 1911 she rowed into the Savannah River and saved eight men. Every tourist photographs her statue. Nobody knows she died in Thunderbolt.
009 · Whitaker Street
Miriam Hopkins
1701 Whitaker Street, Savannah
She was seven years old when the census recorded her here. She became the first performer ever nominated for an Academy Award for a color film. The house is now a quadplex.
010 · West 36th Street
Ralph Mark Gilbert
611 West 36th Street, Savannah
Martin Luther King Jr. slept in this house. Ralph Mark Gilbert was the father of Savannah's civil rights movement. He trained W.W. Law. He died in 1956 before the work was done.
011 · West 33rd Street
W.W. Law
409 West 33rd Street, Savannah
MLK called him the lion of civil rights in Savannah. He was born here, stayed here, and by 1963 made Savannah the most desegregated city south of the Mason-Dixon line.
012 · West 38th Street
Alicia Rhett
18 West 38th Street, Savannah
Her great-grandfather was the Father of Secession. Margaret Mitchell named Rhett Butler after her family. She played India Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. The house is now a bed and breakfast.
013 · New Street / Bay Lane
Dolly Reed & Mary Woodhouse
13 New Street / Bay Lane, Savannah
It was illegal to teach enslaved people to read. Dolly Reed sent her granddaughter anyway — to a secret kitchen school on Bay Lane. That granddaughter became Susie King Taylor.
014 · Johnson Square
Gracie Perry Watson
Pulaski House Hotel, Johnson Square
She was six years old when she died. The most visited grave in Savannah. Ghost tours stop every night. Tourists leave toys at her feet. Nobody knows the hotel where she lived was demolished for a bank.
015 · Gaston Street
Frank O'Driscoll Hunter
218 Gaston Street, Savannah
Hunter Army Airfield is named for him. Two census records — 1900 and 1910 — confirm him at this address as a child. He commanded the Eighth Air Force over Nazi Germany. No marker on his childhood home.
016 · White Bluff Road
Shangri-La / Magnolia Plantation
White Bluff Road Corridor, Savannah
They called it Shangri-La. The 1944 subdivision plat reads: a subdivision of the Adeline Graham Tract formally a portion of Magnolia Plantation. The plantation name was buried in the legal description.
017 · Downtown Savannah
Yamacraw Burial Ground
Between the City and Trustees' Garden
In 1760 workers found a stratum filled with human bones. History of the City Government of Savannah, page 34, confirms it as an ancient Indian burying ground. No marker. No acknowledgment.
018 · Springfield Plantation
Springfield Heights / Carver Village
Springfield Plantation, Savannah
600 homes. Built for Black World War II veterans. On plantation land. Named after a man born into slavery who devoted his life to fighting cotton's legacy. National Register of Historic Places 2019.
019 · Cuyler-Brownville
Cuyler-Brownville
Cuyler-Brownville, Savannah
The 1860 slave schedule confirms the Cuyler family as slaveholders. The only Black neighborhood in Savannah not redlined carries their name. The community that survived redlining was named after slaveholders.
020 · Johnson Square
General Nathanael Greene
Mulberry Grove · Colonial Park · Johnson Square
His body was lost for 116 years. Found in the wrong vault in 1901. The second most important general of the American Revolution. Nobody noticed he was missing.
021 · East of Historic District
Twickenham Plantation
East of Historic District, Savannah
On the 1910 city map. On the 1929 map. No published history anywhere. No marker. No encyclopedia entry. A plantation confirmed on two official maps with no public history. DEED found it.
022 · Vernon View Drive · DEED Discovery · May 7, 2026
Ted Turner
322 Vernon View Drive, Savannah, Georgia
His father moved the family to Savannah to sell billboards. The 1950 census places Robert E. Turner Jr. — age 11 — at this address. He founded CNN. He gave $1 billion to the United Nations. He died May 6, 2026. DEED found the address the next day.