Constructed in 1790, and named for General Joseph Warren, a revolutionary war hero and president of the Third Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Few people are aware that Savannah and Boston formed a relationship as “Sister Cities” which dates back to the time of the American Revolution. This began when the citizens of Savannah sent stores of gunpowder they had seized from British ships to aid the Americans at Bunker Hill. This special relationship would continue through the Civil War, when Bostonians sent shiploads of supplies to Savannah after the city’s surrender to General Sherman in 1864 during the Civil War.

• 24 HABERSHAM circa 1797 – This home was used as a hospital during the yellow fever epidemic of 1876. It was also visited by the famed revolutionary General Lafayette.