Free previewStop 4 of Savannah Walking Tour: City Hall to Forsyth Park
Daisy's House, and the Girls Who Saved It
You're on Oglethorpe Avenue, in front of number 10, the house Savannah knows as the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace. Look up and count the floors. There are three. Now find the top one, because it's younger than the rest of the house, and its timing is the quiet joke of this stop.
The house went up in 1820 for James Moore Wayne, then mayor of Savannah, a man who later sat on the United States Supreme Court. Savannah in 1820 was a slaveholding city, and its fine houses rose in that world. In 1831 Wayne sold the place to his niece, Sarah Stites Gordon, and her husband, William Washington Gordon. They were the first of four generations of Gordons to live behind this front door.
In 1860 their granddaughter was born here. Her name was Juliette Gordon, but everyone called her Daisy. Daisy grew up in this house.
That's the opening. The rest plays at stop 4 of Savannah Walking Tour: City Hall to Forsyth Park (3 min in all). Unlock the tour to hear it all, or try stop 1 free first.
