Wright Square
Wright Square rests on far older ground than its monuments suggest. Laid out in 1733 as one of Savannah's first four squares, it was first named Percival Square before being renamed in 1763 for James Wright, Georgia's third and final royal governor.
It became the burial place of Tomochichi, the Yamacraw chief who welcomed the colony's founders; when he died in 1739, Oglethorpe had him interred at the square's center beneath a pyramid of stones, later displaced by a granite boulder from Stone Mountain. The square was also where Alice Riley was hanged in 1735, remembered as the first woman executed in Georgia.
Visitors say Alice still wanders at dusk, searching for the infant taken from her, and that Spanish moss refuses to grow on the trees where she died.
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