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Wright Square

Originally this was Percival Square, in honor of the colonists' best friend in Parliament, the Right Honorable John Lord Viscount Percival, Earl of Egmont, and president of the Trustees of the Georgia colony. This is the second of the four wards laid out by Oglethorpe himself, and is home to two important monuments. In the southeast quadrant is a granite boulder given by the Colonial Dames in honor of Chief Tomochichi, who was buried nearby in 1739 with Oglethorpe as a pall bearer. Centering the square are the pink Georgia marble columns of the monument to William Washington Gordon, founder and president of the Central of Georgia Railroad and grandfather of Juliette Gordon Low.

--Visitor's Guide to Savannah

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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Franklin Square
Johnson Square
Reynolds Square
Warren Square
Washington Square
Greene Square
Columbia Square
Oglethorpe Square
Wright Square
Telfair Square
Orleans Square
Chippewa Square
Colonial Park Cemetary
Troup Square
Lafayette Square
Madison Square
Pulaski Square
Monterey Square
Calhoun Square
Whitefield Square

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