In the 18th century, under their leader Tomochichi, they met the newly arriving European settlers. The Yamacraws, a Native American tribe, were the first known people to settle in and around Savannah. Hoping to capitalize on the power vacuum created by the Spanish withdrawal to Florida, the Crown allied itself with the native bands on the Georgia coast, such as the Yamasee, a relatively new Indian group made up of remnants of earlier groups including the Guale. Spanish missions such as Santa Catalina de Guale and Santo Domingo de Talaje, attacked and weakened by the Guale revolt of 1597, were finally abandoned by the 1680s as a result of continuous encroachment by traders from the Carolina Lowcountry.
As early as the 16th century, Spanish missions and presidios (military outposts) were established all along the Georgia coast. History Native settlers Īlthough Savannah was the first permanent colonial settlement in modern-day Georgia, it was far from the first European encroachment into Yamasee/Creek/Guale lands. Today, Savannah's downtown area is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States (designated in 1966). It is known as Georgia's first planned city and attracts millions of visitors, who enjoy the city's architecture and historic structures such as the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South's first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest black Baptist congregations in the United States), Congregation Mickve Israel (the third-oldest synagogue in America), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America). The city of Savannah, Georgia, the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, was established in 1733 and was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia. JSTOR ( December 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "History of Savannah, Georgia" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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