The Alumni Arena is a 4,000 seat multi-purpose arena in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It was built in 1995. It was the home of the Armstrong State University Pirates basketball teams until the Armstrong athletics program was discontinued following the university's consolidation with Georgia Southern University in 2017.
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Georgia Southern University–Armstrong Campus, formerly Armstrong State University, is one of four campuses of Georgia Southern University, a public university in the U.S. state of Georgia. Occupying a 268-acre area on the residential southside of Savannah, Georgia, the school became one of three campuses of Georgia Southern University in 2018. The university's flagship campus is in Statesboro, 50 miles west of Savannah. The Armstrong campus is located approximately 15 miles from downtown Savannah and 25 miles from Tybee Island. Armstrong offers undergraduate and graduate degrees; it has a total student enrollment of approximately 5,000 students.
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Windsor Forest High School is a public high school in the Windsor Forest section of Savannah, Georgia, United States. Managed by the Savannah-Chatham County School Board of Education, its attendance area includes the southside Savannah neighborhoods of Windsor Forest, White Bluff, Wilshire, and Georgetown.
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Savannah Mall is a defunct two-level enclosed regional shopping mall on the southside of Savannah, Georgia, that opened August 29, 1990. The mall is anchored by Target, Bass Pro Shops, and Dillard's. The lower level of the anchor pad that is occupied by Target is a former Burlington Coat Factory that closed in 2020 and currently occupied by an e-cigarette and hemp products distributor. The upper level of an original Montgomery Ward is currently occupied by the Savannah Bananas. The lower level is currently a call center.
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The Savannah Country Day School is an independent college preparatory school founded in 1955 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. The co-educational school serves students from pre-kindergarten through to twelfth grade, and has 1,028 students enrolled.
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White Bluff was a collection of communities—Nicholsonboro, Rose Dhu, Twin Hill, and Cedar Grove—located in Chatham County, Georgia, United States, and now part of Savannah. In 1940, as part of research published in Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, the total population was estimated at 400. The communities were centered on White Bluff Road, eight miles southeast of Savannah.
Drum and Shadows describes White Bluff as a "quiet Negro community" where "moss-hung oaks form a canopy and cast filigreed shadows" upon the community's main road. Many of its older inhabitants were former slaves on a large plantation on St. Catherines Island owned by Jacob Waldburg. They moved to White Bluff in 1868 after Waldburg reclaimed the island, which after the Civil War had been briefly reserved for freed slaves by General Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15.
According to the 1869 book Historical Record of the City of Savannah, the community at that time had two hotels and several summer homes. Additionally, the book states that in 1740, there had been a Dutch settlement at the location.