Today was our last day on Tybee Island as we leave tomorrow for Brunswick, GA. We left early morning and headed toward Savannah. Our first cache was at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House which is one of Paula dean's restaurants. Next we were on to 2 cemetery caches, the first one at The Lost Town of Lepageville Cemetery which was a black neighborhood sandwiched between what is now President St and the Savannah River. The village organized in the late 1890's was made up of rows of tiny frame houses which the railroad built for its workers. However as larger industries moved in the village gradually disappeared. The land for the cemetery, which is 3.8 acres was deeded over by the Englehard Corp. Sadly only one graveyard remains in the cemetery. Back in the day when folks were buried there, they couldn't afford traditional headstones. Instead, families placed whatever they could on the grave, whether it was a pitcher, a pot or even a hubcap. Then it was on to Hillcrest Abbey a huge cemetery for the 2nd cache.
Then it was on to Bonaventure Cemetery for a GREAT multi cache. It entailed going to 4 separate grave sites and gathering information about the particular sites and then figuring out the coords for the final cache site. We visited the grave sites of Mr. Ives, who frowns on gaiety of any kind, the sweet Kate Smith, who has a difficult time speaking badly of anyone and a ribald Bernadine Holdrege, who never met a martini she didn't like. The cemetery was originally a plantation and members of the were buried there and it was converted to a cemetery in 1868. The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the book and movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Some of the famous people buried there are Claudius Charles Wilson and Josiah Tattnall two Civil War veterans and Noble Wimberly Jones and Edward Telfair two American Revolutionary notables. Also in the cemetery are the graves of Conrad Aiken, Edythe Chapman, Hugh W. Mercer and musician Johnny Mercer. This was a fun cache and we enjoyed doing it very much although it did take us about 1 1/2 hours to complete.
Then on to a cache in one of the local parks and then a letterbox cache at the City of Savannah Parks Dept. Then it was on to the Old Savannah Powder Magazine for another cache located behind the building. This powder magazine was built in 1898 and used till 1963 for storing explosive powder, artillery ammunition and eventually dynamite. It is the only municipal powder magazine statewide, possibly the nation. It was a gothic design and looks like a castle. It was 1400 square feet, 2 room magazine and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and they hope to turn the area into a historic site and park.
Then on to Ryans Steakhouse for a cache, then to a local movie theater for a puzzle cache, a KMart, a local office bldg., a Howitzer gun located at the National Guard Center and then 2 more local parks for other caches.
Well, I wanted to stop in Savannah so that I could eat at Paula Deen's restaurant.
Did I? No I didn't. On Sunday we drove by the place and at 10:00 a.m. people were lined up & down the street waiting for it to open at noon for lunch. It seems they don't take reservations. If it was just me, I probably would have stood in line and waited. Also, Dad googled the restaurant ratings and 50% of them were very bad. So I guess I'll just have to try some of her recipes myself. Oh, well.
Then it was on to the RV and order out a couple of pizzas for dinner. Well time to end for now and we would like to tell everybody we think of them often and we love all you guys.
Picture List: 1 & 2-Old Savannah Powder Magazine, 3 & 4-Bonaventure Cemetery, 5-Old Savannah Powder Magazine, 6-LePageville Cemetery, 7 & 8-Johnny Mercer's Garve site Bonaventure Cemetery.
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