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Our Coast :: Savannah City Guide :: Visiting
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July 25, 2008
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Mapped out in 1734 as Lower New Square, Reynolds Square was home to the Filature, where cocoons were brought and silk woven. Hopes for a flourishing silk industry were dashed when fire destroyed the Filature in 1758. The square was renamed for John Reynolds, first Royal Governor of Georgia. The statue, by sculptor Marshall Daugherty, is of the Rev. John Wesley and was dedicated by the Methodist Church in 1979. Mr Wesley wears clerical vestments of the Church of England.
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