Yamacraw Bluff

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.

Tomochichi and his nephew, Toonahawi