Savannah: squares, a Christmas gift and a moss that isn't moss

Savannah was drawn on paper before a single house stood on its bluff — and it is also the city of a chief who crossed the ocean, a fort the experts called invincible, a general's telegram and a woman who never missed a ship. This quiz invites you to explore its history in 20 questions with pictures, for Savannahians who think they know their squares as well as for visitors.

What is the basic unit of Oglethorpe's plan, who interpreted between the newcomers and the Yamacraw, and whom does the colony's name honor? What did the early colony forbid that South Carolina allowed, whose grave lies in Wright Square, and what did the first Jewish settlers carry across the sea?

Who fell in the assault of 1779, where was a famous machine of 1793 worked out, and beside whom did a Revolutionary hero lie for a century? How did the first steamship to cross the Atlantic really travel, why is a lighthouse at the river's mouth built in two parts, and what broke the walls of a brick fort during the Civil War? Where did the sale of 1859 take place, and who built a church of 1859 on Franklin Square?

What did a general offer the president for Christmas, why does a building on Bay Street stand on pillars, and where did the Forsyth Park fountain come from? What happened at a wedding in 1886, what is the gray plant hanging from the oaks, and who greeted the ships for 44 years?

The pictures are old photographs, photochroms, postcards, engravings, paintings and a patent drawing, all in the public domain.