Madison Square features a vintage
cannon from the Savannah
Armory.[4] These now mark the starting points of the first highways in Georgia, the Ogeechee Road, leading to
Darien, and the
Augusta Road.[2][5]
The square also includes a monument marking the center of the British resistance during the siege.[6]
In 1971 Savannah landscape architect
Clermont Huger Lee and
Mills B. Lane planned and initiated a project to install new walk patterns with offset sitting areas and connecting walks at curbs, add new benches, lighting and planting.[8]
Each building below is in one of the eight blocks around the square composed of four residential "tything" blocks and four civic ("trust") blocks, now known as the
Oglethorpe Plan. They are listed with construction years where known.
Northwestern residential/tything lot
Sorrel–Weed House, 6 West Harris Street (1840)[1] – oldest building on the square
Francis Sorrel Property, 12 West Harris Street (1856)[1]
Eugenia & Louisa Kerr Duplex, 14–18 West Harris Street (1842–1843) – attributed to
Charles B. Cluskey
Eliza Ann Jewett Property (3), 20–22 West Harris Street (1842–1843)
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abCity of Savannah's monuments page This page links directly to numerous short entries, many accompanied by photographs, discussing a variety of monuments, memorials, etc., in the squares and elsewhere. Accessed June 16, 2007.
^Chan Sieg (1984). The squares: an introduction to Savannah.
Virginia Beach: Donning.
^Savannah Scene magazine, May–June 2007, pp 10–11, accessed June 16, 2007.