Genteel & Bard’s Savannah History Walking Tour

Experience Savannah's only audio-enhanced professionally guided walking tour. Your souvenir earbuds ensure you can actually hear the live guide and not miss a single word. Also, unlike other walking tours with silence between locations, the guide will continuously share stories, ensuring you the best experience and value.

This Historic Savannah Walking Tour is an easy stroll through the most beautiful city in the U.S.. Learn some of Savannah's historic stories and see locations that shaped this country, while enjoying photographs, music, and first account letters. You're sure to walk away with new friends and a deeper love for the Hostess City. This Savannah walking tour brings the museum experience outdoors for an unforgettable live story-telling production that you absolutely can't afford to miss.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Genteel & Bard, Savannah, GA 31401

Our History Walk together will be a full submersion into Savannah’s rich history from 1733 - today.

You will hear, see, and connect with the Hostess City through it’s stories, locals, music, architecture, war times, culture, movies, and history.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Chippewa Square, Bull Street Between Hull Street and Perry Street, Savannah, GA 31401

—Forrest Gump and it’s significance to Savannah’s History and present day.

—Discover Savannah’s origin’s, the planned city, purpose behind it’s squares, James Oglethorpe (Founder of Georgia), Mary Musgrove, Chief Tomochichi and Yamacraw Native Americans.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Madison Square, Bull Street Between West Harris and West Charlton Streets, Savannah, GA

—Learn About Savannah’s role in the Civil War and how our city shaped the United State’s future with one of the most important events in world History.

—Green-Meldrim House

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Savannah College of Art and Design, Kiah Hall, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Savannah, GA 31402-2072

From the past to the present, hear how SCAD has influenced international business, design, and entrepreneurship through it’s innovated college. SCAD is one of many stories that has put Savannah on the world map.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Savannah Historic District, 301 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Savannah, GA 31401-4217

Take part in Savannah’s architectural history and Jones Street. It was once called America’s most beautiful street and the live oak brick street is the center of Savannah’s exquisite homes, architecture, and cultural history.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Lafayette Square, 201 E Charlton St, Savannah, GA 31401-4605

—Juliette Gordon Low & the Girl Scouts

—Hamilton Turner Inn, the first hone with electricity in Savannah

—The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and Savannah’s Irish Heritage.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Colonial Park Cemetery, 200 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31401

—Cemetery History

—Savannah & The Revolutionary War

—The most expensive signature in United States History

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Oglethorpe Square, 112 E State St Between E State St. And E York St. At Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31401-3715

—The legendary Johnny Mercer

—Conclude in Oglethorpe Square

Duration: 10 minutes