Reynolds Square
Laid out in 1734 as one of Savannah's earliest squares and later named for royal governor John Reynolds, this leafy green once held the colony's Filature, where silkworms were raised in a failed bid to spin a Georgia silk industry. At its heart stands a 1969 bronze of John Wesley, the Methodist founder who ministered nearby in the 1730s and started America's first Sunday school. Local lore tells a grimmer tale: that bodies from a nearby fever hospital were burned in the square during a 19th-century epidemic, and that some of the cremated were not yet dead when the flames took them. Visitors who photograph the Wesley statue report hazy distortions, strange colors, and orbs they cannot explain, while the adjacent Planters Inn keeps its own resident ghost, a woman said to straighten the pictures on the wall before vanishing.
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