Vic's on the River
Built in 1859 to a John Norris design, this building on the Savannah River bluff began as a cotton warehouse and shipping office before General Sherman's officers commandeered its rooms during the Civil War, one sketching a battle map of the march onto a plaster wall, now preserved behind glass in the dining room. The 2006 restaurant inherited more than the architecture: staff and guests report unseen hands brushing past, footsteps, and noises with no living source, long blamed on the warehouse workers who once labored these floors.
The most retold tale belongs to a lovelorn French mariner said to linger upstairs, the fifth floor the most active. One morning a wedding cake was found toppled, footage reportedly showing it slide off near 3:30 a.m.
📍 26 East Bay Street, Savannah, GA 31401, Savannah, GA · Get directions