In conjunction with Women’s History Month, the Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF) has been honoring and recognizing its seven female founders, culminating with a special event on Thurs., March 31. According […]
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LET IT GLOW! Davenport House Museum celebrates the season with candlelight tours
Next to the manicured green space, bubbling fountain, and majestic live oaks of Columbia Square sits The Davenport House Museum (DHM), a stately American Federal-style brick home recognized as the […]
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You think 2020’s bad? Davenport House Museum programming marks bicentennial of 1820 pandemic and fire
The late dreadful conflagration in Savannah must arouse the feelings of the most insensate. An attempt to portray the suffering, the anguish, the horror, attendant upon such a visitation, would […]
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Davenport House reboots popular Yellow Fever living history program
It details a credibly-documented account of what happened, which might be more frightful than graveyard walks and jumpscares
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Lanes of Savannah: The artistic path less traveled
‘Between’ fits in perfectly with the Davenport House’s new initiative to tell the story of Savannah’s lanes
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Davenport House program traces 1820 yellow fever outbreak in Savannah
THIS OCTOBER, forget ghosts and goblins—there’s something way scarier at the Davenport House. Yellow Fever 1820 is the historic house’s special programming for October and traces the outbreak of yellow […]
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Telling the whole story at the Davenport House Museum
A FEW weeks ago, about 35 docents from the Isaiah Davenport House, one of our city’s most-visited historic sites, sat down for a workshop in the spirit of continuing education. What […]
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VOICE Festival brings opera to The Davenport
It’s largely in thanks to Anna Hunter that Savannah’s historic architecture is so well-preserved
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Lafayette visits Savannah, Revolutionary War soldiers march again as part of celebrations
Illuminating Lafayette’s sojourn with fascinating local context, the interactive tour takes place Friday and Saturday nights through October.
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‘A more inclusive and nuanced history’
Eight of Savannah’s historically significant organizations offer a day of free admission this Sunday, August 20.
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Paging Dr. Lavinder: Savannah’s first female doctor at the Davenport House
BEING A DOCTOR during Savannah’s yellow fever epidemic was a tough gig. Antibiotics wouldn’t be invented for another century, leeches were considered the most effective “cure” in your medicine bag, […]
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Davenport House: Happy New Year, from 1820
ONE OF Savannah’s premier house museums—and the original inspiration for Savannah’s downtown preservation movement—the Davenport House usually offers fun living history holiday-themed tours by candlelight. And they usually try to […]