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	TELFAIR MUSEUM 121 Barnard at Telfair Square, Savannah 31401 The oldest museum in the South. It is located in a mansion designed by noted English architect William Jay. The Telfair Museum of Art traces it's history from 1886 when the Telfair family home opened to the public as an art museum and school. It now has three diverse sites - the original building, the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Owens-Thomas House. 912.790.8800 www.telfair.org
	JEPSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS 207 W. York, Savannah 31401 Designed by internationally acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie, the 64,000 sq. ft. Jepson Center is a state-of-the-art museum that also features sculpture gardens, auditorium and museum store. 912.790.8800 www.telfair.org
	Roundhouse Railroad Museum 901 West Harris Street, Savannah One of the oldest and most complete antebellum railroad manufacturing and repair facilities still in existence. 912.651.6823 www.roundhouserailroadmuseum.org
	Fort Jackson, also known as Old Fort Jackson 1 Fort Jackson Road, Savannah The fort is one of only eight Second System fortifications (a series of forts built prior to the War of 1812) still standing in the United States. It served as headquarters for the Confederate Savannah River defenses during the American Civil War. 912.232.3945 Old Fort Jackson
	The Savannah History Museum 303 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah The Savannah History Museum showcases the city’s history from its founding in 1733 to the present day. You can see exhibits about the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, rare dugout canoes from the 1800s, and a changing exhibit of women’s fashions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 912.651.6825 Savannah History Museum
	Ships of the Sea Museum 41 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, This museum is located in the historic Scarbrough House, designed by noted English architect William Jay and built iin 1819 for the princiipal owner of the Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, founded in 1966, exhibits ship models, paintings and maritime antiques, principally from the great era of Atlantic trade and travel between England and America during the 18th and 19th centuries. 912.232.1511 www.shipsofthesea.org
	Tybee Lighthouse and Museum 30 Meddin Drive, N End, Tybee Island, Ordered by General James Oglethorpe, Governor of the 13th colony, in 1732, the Tybee Island Light Station has been guiding mariners safe entrance into the Savannah River for over 270 years. The Tybee Island Light Station is one of America's most intact having all of its historic support buildings on its five-acre site. The third in a series of lighthouses built at this spot since 1733.The current lighthouse was completed in 1773. 912.786.4077 www.tybeelighthouse.org
	Wormsloe Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Road, Savannah, GA Special events and historic re-enactments are often held at Wormsloe. The tabby ruins of a house built between 1739 and 1745 by Noble Jones, one of Georgia's first colonists. Iin 1736 Oglethorpe and the Trustees leased 500 acres to Jones, who began work on a combination plantation/fort along the Skidaway River. Two other colonists, John Fallowfield and Henry Parker, joined Jones on this "Isle of Hope." 912.353.3023 www.wormsloe.org
	The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum 175 Bourne Avenue, Pooler On January 28, 1942, fifty-three days after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, the 8th Air Force was officially activated in the National Guard Armory on Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia.The Museum honors the men and women who helped defeat Nazi aggression by serving in or supporting the greatest air armada the world had ever seen – the 8th Air Force. These individuals pledged themselves to honor the courage and commitment of more than 350,000 members of the 8th Air Force. Of this number, 26,000 were killed in action and 28,000 became prisoners of war during World War II. 912.748.8888 www.mightyeighth.org

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