This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.
This Gothic revival Savannah mansion was the home of Charles Green, who, rather than have his house destroyed in the Civil War, allowed Gen. Sherman to make it his headquarters. Green was a cotton and ship merchant. He would have owned slaves, and…
This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.
This placard memorializes General WilliamTecumseh Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15, which would eventually become known as the "Forty Acres and a Mule" promise. In January 1865, Sherman met with 20 black ministers at his headquarters, now known…
This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.
These slave cabins at McLeod Plantation date to the early 19th century. After emacipation, they still housed blacks, and did so for many years thereafter, til around 1990 (not a misprint).
This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.