Forsyth Park
Forsyth Park is Savannah's grand central green, thirty acres of live oaks and walking paths spread across the southern edge of the historic district. It began in the 1840s on ten acres donated by William Brown Hodgson, was expanded and named for Governor John Forsyth in 1851, and grew again in 1859 when a large parade ground for the city's military companies was added at its southern end.
Its centerpiece, the white cast-iron fountain installed in 1858, was modeled after the fountains at the Place de la Concorde in Paris and remains one of the city's most photographed sights. Yet that drill-ground history shadows the lore.
After dark, joggers and visitors describe cold spots near the fountain, the figures of Confederate soldiers drifting across the lawns, and footsteps that follow them along the tree-lined paths.
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