Silk Hope is an unincorporated community in Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Savannah Dragway was an eighth-mile dragstrip used by the NHRA located near in Savannah, Georgia. The track opened as a quarter-mile facility in 1968, but safety concerns and rising insurance costs caused it to convert to the smaller distance in the mid-1980s. They were almost forced to close down at the end of 2005, this was because a neighbour filed many noise complaints and also because their lease was expiring but the lease was extended into 2006 at the last minute.
In 2004, half a dozen people were hit by lightening at the dragway.
An eighth-mile track called "Savannah River Dragway" opened in 2006 in Screven County. It is further from Savannah, 50 miles northwest of the old Savannah Dragway location.
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The historic Savannah–Ogeechee Barge Canal is one of the prime relics in the history of southern canals. Beginning with the tidal lock at the Savannah River, the waterway continues through four lift locks as it traverses 16.5 miles, before reaching another tidal lock at the Ogeechee River at Fort Stewart. Along the way, the canal passed through Savannah’s 19th century industrial corridor, former rice fields, timber tracts, and a still lush tidal river swamp and adjacent sandhill environment that is the characteristic habitat for several unique species of flora and fauna. Nowadays much of this area comprises the Savannah suburbs of Garden City and Pooler. The canal was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 1997.
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Savannah Christian Preparatory School is a private, college preparatory, non-denominational Christian school located in Savannah, Georgia, United States.
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Lebanon Plantation is a Private historic site located at 5745 Ogeechee Road in Savannah, Georgia. The site is over 500 acres consisting of a large estate granted to James Deveaux in 1756, and was named for the many cedar trees on the property. An additional 500 acres were granted to Phillip Delegal in 1758 and eventually became part of the plantation. The site was purchased by Joseph Habersham in 1802. Habersham sold it in 1804 to George W. Anderson who built the main house that was rebuilt and added on to after the American Civil War. Anderson's son, George Wayne Anderson, JR Commanded Fort McAllister in the Civil War, and after the fort fell, Lebanon became his prison and the headquarters of the Fifteenth Army Corps of the US Army.
After occupation, the main house at Lebanon was partially destroyed, and foreclosed upon in 1868. It was recovered by George W. Anderson in 1871. The extent of the damage to the original house is not known, but was rebuilt and repaired by April 23, 1873. Anderson later divided the property and allowed French immigrants to form a colony called L'Esperance. They planted and cultivated vineyards that did not succeed. In 1916, Savannah's Mills Bee Lane, father of the city's preservationist Mary Lane Morrison, purchased the plantation from the Anderson family heirs, and grew a new variety of orange, called the Savannah Satsuma. It was later owned by Morrison's son, Howard J. Morrison Jr., and his wife, Mary Reynolds Morrison, the third generation of the Lane–Morrison family to continuously own the property.
Lebanon remains a working plantation today, much in the same manner it has for over two centuries and is private not open to the public.
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Coast Guard Air Station Savannah is a United States Coast Guard Air Station located at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia.
History
The community was named in the founders' hopes a silk textile industry would thrive here.