River Street in Savannah
July 4th 2015 When Georgia cotton was the world standard, River Street was where cotton merchants’ offices and warehouses were located in six-storey buildings right by the docks for ease of loading the bales onto ships. The Civil War blockade 150 years ago put a temporary end to that trade, and when General Sherman captured Savannah he informed President Lincoln that the spoils of war there included about twe
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