Central of Georgia Railway, Cotton Yard Gates, West Broad Street, Savannah

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Between 229 and 301 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (formerly West Broad Street), Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. The gates are located at latitude: longitude: This point represents the entranceway between the two gates was obtained on June 23, using Google Earth There is no restriction on its release to the public.

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The towers that used to support the massive gates to the Cotton Yard of the Central of Georgia were erected during the Civil War for security reasons. The wall itself was erected in by Mueller and Schwaab of Savannah, and the masonry is by Benjamin F. Armstrong. The towers housed the gate keepers who kept an eye on all the traffic passing in and out. These gates on West Broad Street were finished in when the castellation was added. The gothic motif probably was meant to go along with the brick archways and the Italianate features of the Passenger Depot. These arches are striking examples of railroad architecture. They add to the historical and architectural uniqueness of the facility.

1 The gates are part of the Central of Georgia Railroad Shops and Terminal Historic District (National Historic Landmark, NRIS No.

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The fieldwork was carried out in by students enrolled in Historic Preservation Recording and Interpretation under the direction of Richard K. Anderson, Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Professor Anderson transferred a group of partly finished HABS and HAER documentation, including this project, to the Heritage Documentation Programs (National Park Service) office in Washington, DC, in the mid-2010s. There are no finished measured drawings of the gates.

The original field notes were added to the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection at the Library of Congress in Transmitter: Mary McPartland, HABS/HAER/HALS Collections Manager, June 1 Donald Andrew Grinde, Report to the Historic American Engineering Record on the Construction of the Central of Georgia Railroad with a Description and Analysis of the Extant Buildings at the Savannah Terminus within Beth Lattimore, John Bartley Schmitt, and Donald Andrew Grinde, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilities, HAER No. GA-1, Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, p. Accessed via June 24,