The squares of Savannah

The city of Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A., was laid out in 1733 around four open squares. The plan anticipated growth of the city and thus expansion of the grid; additional squares were added during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, and by 1851 there were twenty-four squares in the city. In the Twentieth century three of the squares were demolished or altered beyond recognition, leaving twenty-one, although one of the three "lost" squares is currently being reclaimed. Most of Savannah's squares are named in honor or in memory of a person, persons or historical event, and many contain monuments, markers, memorials, statues, plaques, and other tributes.