Short answers, pulled from the story.
Savannah was founded on the 12th of February 1733, when General James Oglethorpe and settlers from the ship Anne landed at Yamacraw Bluff. They were greeted by Tomochichi and the Yamacraw people, and the city and colony of Georgia were established on that date.
The Oglethorpe Plan is the town design created by founder James Oglethorpe, built around repeating units of streets and open squares. Savannah still retains 22 of these parklike squares arranged along five historic streets, and the downtown area is designated as one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States.
On the 21st of December 1864, local Savannah authorities negotiated a peaceful surrender to Major General William T. Sherman's advancing Union forces rather than risk the city's destruction. Union troops entered the city at dawn after the agreement was reached.
The Port of Savannah is North America's fourth-largest port for shipping container traffic. In 2023, it handled 4.9 million twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEU).
Temple Mickve Israel is the third-oldest synagogue in the United States and is located in Savannah. A Jewish community has been present in Savannah since the colony's founding year of 1733.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a non-fiction book by John Berendt published in 1994, is set largely in the Mercer Williams House in Monterey Square. Clint Eastwood directed a film adaptation of the book.