Hampton Inn 31419
201 Stephenson Avenue Savannah, Georgia 31419
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| | The New York Times and The Washington Post | by John Berendt's 1994 nonfiction book, Midnight |
| | agree that Savannah is one of the U.S.'s and even | in the Garden of Good and Evil, a best seller that |
| | the world's top tourism destinations. Repeat | caused a boom in tourism and added lots of new |
| | visitors concur, and travel agents believe that it's | tourism-based jobs to the area. |
| | because theres something for just | |
| | about everyone in or around Savannah. There | Berendt was a columnist for Esquire when he paid |
| | are glorious beaches just outside of town, and | a visit to Savannah to write an article about |
| | one of the country's finest coastal areas, Hilton | wealthy antiques dealer Jim Williams, who was on |
| | Head Island, is just an hour's drive north. History | trial for the murder of his lover. When the trial |
| | lovers will find no end of things to see: more than | turned into a scandal that included |
| | 1,600 structures in Savannah are registered as | cross-dressers, tight-knit socialites and a |
| | historical landmarks, and the downtown area is | practicing voodoo priestess, the article turned into |
| | the nation's largest urban historical district. | a book. Then the book turned into a movie |
| | | (directed by Clint Eastwood) in which many |
| | If you think that planned communities are | lifelong Savannah residents starred as |
| | something new, think again. Savannah was | themselves and became celebrities. Soon |
| | America's first planned city. The flat, coastal | thereafter, people from as far away as New |
| | terrain made it an ideal place to plot a city grid of | Zealand began to travel to The Hostess City of |
| | 25 squares. Today, 22 of the squares remain, and | the South, book in hand. |
| | each one is filled with lovely gardens, live oak | |
| | trees and wrought iron fences. The grid design | But they weren't the first visitors to discover |
| | and lushly landscaped squares and public parks | Savannah. Troops of Girl Scouts have been |
| | make Savannah an ideal city for walking. | making the pilgrimage there for years to visit the |
| | | Juliette Gordon Low House. The founder of the |
| | A stroll through the city will reveal an abundance | Girl Scouts of America was born in an elegant |
| | of beautiful homes in soft colors. Because the city | mansion on Bull Street in 1860. |
| | was spared the torch during the Civil War, the | |
| | houses are a mix of Federal, antebellum and | Savannah is also a temporary home to the many |
| | Victorian styles. Many feature long, wide porches | students attending the Savannah College of Art |
| | and Italian-style low-pitched roofs with wrought | and Design (SCAD). You'll see artistically |
| | iron balconies. This style can be seen on a | renovated buildings all over downtown that are |
| | residence known as Mercer House, made famous | part of this urban campus. |
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