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Savannah is often described as a city of squares, but that’s tourist’s shorthand. The real unit of the city is the ward, a roughly ten-acre cell of streets, lots, and a central green. The pattern was drawn up in 1733 by General James Oglethorpe, the British soldier and parliamentarian who founded the Georgia colony, and was replicated, almost without revision, by successive generations of city councils until the 1850s. Each ward holds a square at its heart, two rows of resid