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Pine Gardens and Savannah's Defense Community

Pine Gardens and Savannah's Defense Community is a Georgia historical marker in in Savannah., Chatham County, dedicated 2023.

Located at the Whitney Administrative Complex, 2 Laura Avenue, in Savannah.

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The Pine Gardens Defense Community was established in 1942 to supply attractive, affordable housing for the workers of the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation. Workers at the company were responsible for building Liberty Ships, merchant vessels built inexpensively and efficiently to support the war effort during World War II. The neighborhood was a complete community, including a shopping plaza, fire station, and churches. Originally planned as a 500 housing-unit community, an annex was later added. In 1953, the Eli Whitney School was built to educate the students of the Pine Gardens community. Following the war, workers had the option to purchase the homes they were renting. Today, the community is one of the largest intact defense communities in Georgia. Pine Gardens neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

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1874 · Plache VII. Sea Islands. (Carolina du Sud). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1942 · Savannah, South Carolina (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1955 · Savannah, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1955 · Sanborn Fire Insurance Map — Savannah, Ga. (1955) (OldInsuranceMaps.net — Sanborn Map Collection)
1978 · Savannah, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Savannah, South Carolina, 1942, covering the location of Pine Gardens and Savannah's Defense Community, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Savannah, South Carolina, 1942, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Pine Gardens and Savannah's Defense Community

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