The Savannah Murals
The only images available of the Savannah murals are taken from newspaper clippings of the Savannah Morning News, newspaper.
RELIGION IN GEORGIA - religion has played a dominant role in Georgia from the days of the colony's founding. And tolerance has ever been its watchword. John and Charles Wetly, founders of Methodism, came to Georgia with Oglethorpe on his second voyage, in 1736, and John Wetly started the world's first Sunday school. The oldest orphanage in the world, Bethesda, was founded here in 1740 by George Whitfield, an Angelican clergyman. In 1788, Lachlan Macintosh defended the negro's freedom to worship. Protestants of many sects, Catholics and Jews - all have worked together for the spiritual and cultural development of Georgia.
[Savannah Morning News: Sunday, November 10, 1946]
[Savannah Morning News: Sunday, November 10, 1946]
THE PINES OF GEORGIA - Georgia's pine forests rival her cotton in commercial importance - the state's second largest industrial income is derived from forest products. The critical economic situation into which Georgia was plunged by the War Between the States made the development of her natural resources vitally necessary. This was done so effectively that Georgia now ranks third as producer of soft wood lumber and leads the nation in poduction of naval stores, for which Savannah is the world's greatest market. The genius of Dr. Charles H. Herty in making paper pulp and newsprint from southern pine has introduced a profitable new industry to Georgia and his experiments will serve as a foundation for even greater expansion of the pine products market.
[Savannah Morning News: Sunday, November 10, 1946]
[Savannah Morning News: Sunday, November 10, 1946]
NOTE - These are two of the murals at the magnificent new Sears Roebuck building, which soon will be on display. The wording is from the inscription on each. [Savannah Morning News: Sunday, November 10, 1946]
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