Day 17

Started the day at the M Cafe in Savannah that is located in this row of buildings known as "factors" which were the offices and warehouses of the middlemen in the cotton business.  They purchased the cotton from the plantations, and then held onto it until the price was right.  Breakfast was simple, just coffee, a croissant, and a tartan (small baguette).

For the rest of the morning and some of the afternoon we walked among the residential homes in downtown Savanah.  All the streets are laid out in a grid, originally around just 4 squares, but now approximately 20.  Every street is tree lined with gorgeous flowering shrubs and grasses.

This cemetery is mostly unoccupied. During the Civil War the soldiers removed all the bodies from the graves and tombs so that they could find a warmer place to sleep.  Talk about creepy!

This is the Mercer Williams house which was where the murder too place that was made famous in "The Garden of Good and Evil"

"...wider than a mile"