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On the westernside of Savannah, Georgia off of Dean Forest road, sits a track of land which the city of Savannah bought in 1999. This tract of land held the Owens Plantation, a Rev. War tavern site, Union seige lines and Kilpatricks camps after the fall of Savannah in 1864.
Right now, the Savannah/Chatham county police department has a stable on the property. But in about four years, the city wants to turn the whole site into a landfill. The city knows about the history of the site, but they do not care. They are more interested in digging out the land, selling the dirt, and filling it with trash.
In the last twenty years, most of the lines on the western part of the city have been destroyed. This is one of the only tracts of land that has survived the building boom of the 1980's and 1990's . In the last ten years, a plantation site with a large British Base was destroyed for the dirt just across Salt Creek from this site. Guess who bought the dirt? The state of Georgia for a new mega industrial site. The DNR Archeologists went out there and said the site was not deemed important to save. They were looking for prehistoric Native American artifacts. And, it was an election year and the powers that be wanted nothing to slow down the building of the new mega site.
You should have seen the one of a kind American and British artifacts that were saved by artifact collectors before all the soil was dug out. Historians could have learned so much about British and American soldiers in the southern campaign of the American Revolution from this site. The destruction of that site sould have been a crime.
So, who do you contact to try and save the site? The city will not help. They want the trash. And getting help from the State of Georgia, the state is almost broke. They will not help. Who do you turn too?
Yours,
Ken Myers
Right now, the Savannah/Chatham county police department has a stable on the property. But in about four years, the city wants to turn the whole site into a landfill. The city knows about the history of the site, but they do not care. They are more interested in digging out the land, selling the dirt, and filling it with trash.
In the last twenty years, most of the lines on the western part of the city have been destroyed. This is one of the only tracts of land that has survived the building boom of the 1980's and 1990's . In the last ten years, a plantation site with a large British Base was destroyed for the dirt just across Salt Creek from this site. Guess who bought the dirt? The state of Georgia for a new mega industrial site. The DNR Archeologists went out there and said the site was not deemed important to save. They were looking for prehistoric Native American artifacts. And, it was an election year and the powers that be wanted nothing to slow down the building of the new mega site.
You should have seen the one of a kind American and British artifacts that were saved by artifact collectors before all the soil was dug out. Historians could have learned so much about British and American soldiers in the southern campaign of the American Revolution from this site. The destruction of that site sould have been a crime.
So, who do you contact to try and save the site? The city will not help. They want the trash. And getting help from the State of Georgia, the state is almost broke. They will not help. Who do you turn too?
Yours,
Ken Myers
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