Reynolds Square
Please Note: This can be a VERY busy square with many muggles,
please use stealth when acquiring this cache, and please replace as
found. You will need a pen and maybe a toothpick. As always please
be respectful of our squares, there is no need for bushwhacking to
find this cache.
Reynolds Square is a very busy central square, a good place to
start your tour of Savannah squares if you’re a visitor of
our fair city. It is also a good place to start your cache tour. A
pleasant walk through these squares is a great way to collect
cache’s and see some of the larger more popular squares.
Walking from Bay or River Street, collect this cache, then turn
right and continue your quest to City Market where you can listen
to live music and along the way you will pass computerized
fountains and possibly stop for a southern style meal with family
& friends plus pick up a cache in every square along your way
and beyond!
About Reynolds Square… One of Savannah, Georgia's many
beautiful squares, Reynolds Square is located on Abercorn Street,
between Bryan and Congress. It was named for a Georgia Royal
Governor, James Reynolds.
As a local legend goes, one of the buildings just off the
property was used as a hospital for malaria patients, and a there
was a makeshift crematorium in the center of what is now Reynolds
square. Bodies were gathered not only from the hospital, but from
local homes as well. Victims of the disease were wrapped in a
bedsheet and their bodies were burned to prevent the spread of the
terrible disease. There is some question, however, as to the
thoroughness of the attendants; most of the bodies were certainly
dead, but a few had probably only lapsed into a coma-like state
from the disease. These people were literally burned alive in the
center of the square.
That was long ago, however, and in 1969 the Methodists of
Georgia erected a statue of Reverend John Wesley, the founder of
the Methodist denomination. He is said to have lived nearby, and
the statue shows him in a preaching pose. It is a well-photographed
attraction in Savannah, but often the photographs show strange
colors or hazy patterns, if the photos turn out at all. Many people
blame the photographic anomalies on the spirits of those poor souls
who were burned alive in Reynolds Square.
