- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Silk Filature
- Date of Original:
- 1997/2018
- Subject:
- Taverns (Inns)--Georgia--Savannah
Buildings--Georgia--Savannah
Political planning--Georgia--Savannah
Meetings--Georgia--Savannah
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Savannah (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - People:
- Tondee, Peter, approximately 1723-1775--Homes and haunts
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- paintings (visual works)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Peter Tondee and his business partner built a silk filature on Reynolds Square in 1759. The building served multiple public functions before it was destroyed by fire in 1839.
This image depicts Tondee's Tavern, which stood at the northwest corner of Broughton and Whitaker streets in Savannah, Georgia. The tavern, owned by Peter Tondee, became center stage for the political drama that brought a fledgling province into the ranks of the war for American liberty, and it served for several years during and after the Revolution as the seat of government for the new state. The first record of any assembly at Tondee's Tavern was the twentieth-anniversary meeting of the Union Society on April 23, 1770. Over the next six years Tondee's Tavern was the hub of revolutionary sentiment.
Courtesy of Carl Solana Weeks - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/peter-tondee-ca-1723-1775/m-1699/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Carl Solana Weeks
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/peter-tondee-ca-1723-1775
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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