The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-06-22
GEoReIAs FIRST sErrLEMENT-sAvANNAV
From Georgia Magazinel

(F'rom Georgia Magazine)
Men in all ages have found interest in the places wharf
history IS made. 1t was great Georgian the late m
-. W. Lee, who wrote "The Geography of Capir,,
IN which he undertook to show the interest ATTACHING
to any place the fact that some person or event Of bis
tory is identified with it.
This being true, it is impossible to do more than idi
cafe the wealth OF romance enterprise courage devotion
20 duty and principle buried deep in the mine of history
of Savannah-Georgia's first white settlement
In this city organized and financed the first trans
Atlantic steamship company. The Savannah" said
out of this port May g. 1919 bound for Liverpool which
city was reached twenty days later completing the fr
Transatlantic voyage by steamship In 1919 the Gov
tennia of this courageous enterprise was celebrated and
tablet was placed at the entrance of the city hall com
memorating the event,
Another pioneer Savannahan Thomas Gibbons nrob
ably was the first to prosecute an American com
pine IN restraint OF trade Desiring to steamship
Inc from New York to Elizabethtown, New JERSEY NM
Gibbons found investigation that exclusive RIGHTS -
ply New York waters with steamboats, had been GRANTED
to the Livngstons Robert Fulton and their succassor
r. Gibbons believed that this unconstitutional and
entered suit ogden Gibbons" in New Yorl,
Chancery Court, to break the monopoly codcn ,o
added to his WILL leaving $4,000 to continue the s;+
should he die before its settlement Daniel Webster and
William Writ represented Mr. Gibbons in this li+i
lon and John Marshall wrote the decision of the Unit
I'd States Supreme Court, which court the case was
lnaIly appealed giving Mr. Gibbons the verdict Doubt
ess this is the first record of trust Dustin in America
CHRIST church. Savannah, stands the site of the
rst church in Georgia Here John Wesley preached and
established the first Sunday School in the Engshspeak
ng world There is tablet at the entrance of Christ
church to commemorate his pasorate there and the Colo
NAL Danes have placed tablet in remembrance of Yves
eys successor that prince of pulpit orators GEORGE
Whiteied.
While serving at this church, Whiteed built Bethesda
home for orphaned boys. This was the first orpban
asylum in the American colonies Bethesda is still b
DONG beautiful work. The Georgia Society of Colo
NAL Danes is building chapel for boys as memo
rial to Whitefeld
william Washington Gordon, another pioneer organic
ed the Central of Georgia railroad and was its first nre
dent. A monument is erected here to his memory NJ
~ IS boulder with bronze tablet erected bv the
Georgia Society of Colonial Danes that noble son of
Inc forest Tomi-Chi-Chi the Mico of the Yamacraws
friend of Oglethorpe and the colonists
In the Colonial cemetery lie buried manv of orr early
PATRIOTS At the entrance to this cemetery stands b
DID Assembly House, the first brick house in Georgia In
This house all public meetings of colonial davs were held
LaCer IL was the home of General Lachlan Mcintosh
ma Washington entertained there A bronze tablet
1as been placed on by the Lachlan Mcintosh Chapter
ID A. R. P'N
Beautiful Bonaventure of the show places of Sa.
'"lnan mo" silent city OF the dead, once as its
lame implies, the happy hosptabe home of the English
gentleman Josiah Tattna. When Josiah TattnaT mar
led Mary Mulryne, English landscape gardeners were
brought here and they planned those fine avenues of
I've oaks IN the form of and Ma pretty bit of sent
nent in colonial DAYS
1t was Josiah Tattna third in his line who made the
amous statement "blood is thicker than water" iust
ylng his violation of neutrality in rescuing English
ihlps from French and Russians in Chinese waters in
too9 Admiral Dewey in his autobiography alluded to-
ms incident as follows: Gas flag officer Tattnall went
% the rescue OF the British fleet in Chinese waters in
| loo9' SO Sir Edward Chichester, remembering the
blood rs thicker than water" incident stood spen-
idly by the American feet in 1898 against the plot
ngs OF the German Vice Admiral Won DIETRICH assur-
ng the LATTER should trouble arise he and his fleet would
stand by the Americans"
from that day in February 1733 when Ogethorpe
anoed at the mouth of the Savannah river to this day.
oaVannah has grown to be the second cotton market in
ne united States and the fourth seaport on the Allan
nc seaooard IN point of commerce. But with all this
ne city still retains atmosphere of culture and re-
hement expressive of all that finest and best of the
lays that gone.