IF YOU’RE looking for spine-tingling tales, it doesn’t get more macabre than Savannah in 1820. A fire had left half the city in ruins, there was no electricity, and almost […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Theatre, Comedy, and Performing Arts
Oct. 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 & 31 Dreadful Pestilence: Savannah’s Yellow Fever in 1820 The Davenport House The city’s 19th-century yellow fever epidemic gets careful treatment […]
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Archaeology at the Davenport House
“This was a tenement far longer that it was a home for the Davenports,” reminds Director Jamie Credle. “Everything can add to our inventory of information.”
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Get sick at the Davenport House
Set in various parts of the refined American Federal-style domicile on Columbia Square, the hour-long show chronicles the horrific illness that killed one out of five Savannah citizens and provides a fascinating and germane context of social norms, race relations, media propaganda and medical inefficacy.
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Ghosts of Christmases past
BACK IN the early 19th century, New Year’s got all the glory in Savannah. Christmas was a holiday for the children, but the adults had their fun on New Year’s […]
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Party like it’s 1824
FOLKS AT THE Isaiah Davenport House Museum are very excited about their new living history program. Our Once Cheerful Island: The World of Savannah in 1824 will portray the city […]