Savannah

SAVANNAH WAS ESTABLISHED ON A high bluff on the southern bank of the river of the same name in 1733. Often called the best-planned city in America, it has continued to spread out from its original grid of small lots around twenty small parks, the shady squares that make Savannah also one of the most beautiful. Though the city suffered disastrous fires in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, enough of the early buildings survive that the city is a veritable museum of colonial, Federal, Greek Revival, and Victorian architecture.