Now completely enclosed within downtown Savannah, Georgia, the bluff is most notable for being the site upon which General James Oglethorpe arrived to settle the British colony of Georgia.

A stone marker and statue now adorn the bluff in honor of its historic significance.

[1] In 1733, General James Oglethorpe and 114 colonists landed on the bluff.

The general went on to found the town of Savannah with the help of the chief and a local interpreter, Mary Musgrove.

[3] In anticipation of the 1933 bicentennial celebration of Georgia's founding, a stone marker was laid on Bay Street in a small park just west of Savannah City Hall.