City Hall

The first group of settler's landed on February 12, 1733 after a voyage of over three months in a small galley named the Anne. The group of colonists, led by Oglethorpe himself, settled on a small bluff overlooking the Savannah River which they named Savannah. City Hall now occupies the very spot where Oglethorpe and his settlers first camped in the New World. Completed in 1905, the hall features bronze tablets on each side that commemorate the 1834 launching of the `John Randolph`, the first iron ship seen in American waters, and the `Savannah`, the first steam-propelled ship to cross the ocean.

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