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Wright Square

Named for Sir James Wright, last of the Royal Governor's of Georgia, Wright Square was laid out in 1733. In its southeast corner lies a massive granite boulder, from Georgia's celebrated Stone Mountain, which commemorates the burial in 1739 of Tomo-Chi-Chi, the Mico, or Chief, of the Yamacraw Indians. The imposing monument in the center of the square was erected in 1883 as a tribute to William Washington Gordon, founder and president of the Central of Georgia Railroad.

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Wright Square
1. United States Post Office
(1898) 127 Bull Street. Massive Georgia marble and granite building with intricate friezes under eaves.
2. Juliette Gordon Low Girl Scout National Center
(Wayne-Gordon House Museum, c.1818). An imposing Regency mansion in shades of brown; birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low.
3. Old Chatham County Courthouse
(1889) 124 Bull Street. Romanesque yellow brick and terra cotta on granite base.
4. Lutheran Church of the Ascension
(1879) Bull Street on Wright Square. Soaring French Gothic spires; founded by the Lutherans from Salzburg, Austria.

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