Taylor Square (Savannah, Georgia)
Taylor Square is one of the 22 squares of Savannah, Georgia, United States. Laid out in 1851 south of Lafayette Square, west of Whitefield Square, and east of Monterey Square, it was originally named Calhoun Square for the American statesman John C. Calhoun. The square was renamed Taylor Square in 2023 to honor the Civil War nurse, educator and memoirist Susie King Taylor.
A live oak in the southwestern corner of the square, looking east
Calhoun Square
The square's unique clumps of grass, looking southwest towards the United Methodist Church
Looking east towards 432 Abercorn Street
Lafayette Square (Savannah, Georgia)
Lafayette Square is one of the 22 squares of Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located in the fourth row of the city's five rows of squares, on Abercorn Street and East Macon Street, and was laid out in 1837. It is south of Colonial Park Cemetery, west of Troup Square, north of Taylor Square and east of Madison Square. The square is named for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution who visited Savannah in 1825. The oldest building on the square is the Andrew Low Carriage House, at 329 Abercorn Street, which dates to 1849.
Flannery O'Connor's childhood home stands in the southeastern tything lot of the square
Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, 222 East Harris Street
Hamilton-Turner Inn, 330 Abercorn Street
Battersby–Hartridge–Anderson House, 119 East Charlton Street