The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-06
THE NEW TOWN OF RosEDEw.
Building Village on the Bluff of the
Little Ogeechee.

Few persons who knew of the excellent
a year ago that in twelve months
the beautiful bluff would give prom
Use Of speedily developing into one of the
finest salt water" towns on the Georgia
coast. A trip to 'Rosedew"-the name of
the new towp-brings the visitor tosone of
the most magnificent bluffs in the county,
fronting on the Little Ogeechee river, and
overlooking the entire expanse of country
between Green Island sound on the north,
and Bear river and Bryan county on the
south, whilst to the east the ocean almost
glimmers in crested waves between OsSa-
baw and RaccoOn keys.
Most of Front street along the river
has been cleaned up, and where briars and
vines made walking difficult three months
ago is now a pleasant avenue under the
shades of tall live oaks. So great is the
change in appearance and view by reason
OF this work that one might be suspected of
trying to boom Rosedew, were it not for
the fact that not more than six or eight
waterfront lots remain unsold out of a
total of about AZ. The success of Rosedew
is, therefore, assured beyond question.
Amongst the recent purchasers of lots
are the Auditor F. II. Thompson, of the
Central railroad, who owns West End DR..
b. NJ. Ludden and wife, and Messrs. f. E.
Macarthur and Charles Corner, of the l.. e.
B. S. NJ. H., who own Lee ward; Messrs.
Jaspersen Smith, also of the l.. & B. S, NJ.
H., and David Mayer, who own four-fifths
of Falligant ward; and a syndicate COM
posed of Messrs. j. Mehrtens, George
Schwarz, Robert LaRoche, Frank Nc
Laughlin, l. d. LaRoche, Jr, John S.
Stevenson, Capt. Kreigel, and Gustave
Fox, who own Brown ward. AS nearly all
of these gentlemen will commence building
cottages at once, it will not take Rosedew
long to become quite a place. Two pur-
chasers who obtained lots at the low figures
advertised in 1887 were Messrs Peter John
son and T. Flaherty.
These gentlemen contemplate an extern
sion of the Vernon Shell road from its
present terminus at the eight-mile stone to
RoSedew, distance of about two miles,
which will give the new town a charming
drive all the way from Savannah. So ell
Unused have some of the adjacent land
owners become with the prospects of rapid
Improvement in that section that one of
them has proposed to give a mile or more
right of way and put in IS 900 toward
building the Savannah Vernon and Rose
dew railway, and another is ready to donate
another mile of right of way and supply
terminal depot grounds at the river bank.
The way to get the railroad built" said
DR.. Falligant, the founder of Rosedew, lis
to put people there at such price for the
lots that they can afford to help build the
road and get their money back in the in
creased value of their lots when the road is
built"
DR.. Falligant has certainly secured for
the new town fair share of the pushing,
energetic, wide-awake business element Of
the city. Already over 800 people live in
White Bluff district, and with a railroad
from Savannah the number will doubtless
speedily and largely increase, so that there
is little doubt as TO what the road would
pay.