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Remembering Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Henry McNeal Turner (1834-May 8, 1915) was one of the most influential Black leaders of late 19th century Georgia. Turner was an influential pastor, one of the earliest Black legislators, a prolific writer, and a profound orator. Born in South Carolina, he was never enslaved and received an education through the assistance of the law firm at which he was a janitor. After traveling the South as an itinerant evangelist, he was accepted as a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in 1858 and then pastored in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. I...

City of Savannah Municipal Archives staff For Savannah Morning News Ardsley Park, Chatham Crescent developed because of cars In this first installment of Autos in the Archives, we are looking at images that show how automobiles ushered in the age of the suburb in Savannah and changed urban planning and domestic architecture forever.  Developed in the 1910s, Ardsley Park and Chatham Crescent are considered some of Savannah’s earliest suburbs. These suburbs resembled urban centers with their grid patterns, pedestrian-friendly sidewalks and parks, but their simultaneous development with ...