August 10, 1774

Sons of Liberty Meet in Savannah

On this day in 1774, revolutionaries were plotting at Tondee’s Tavern in Savannah. Thirty men, calling themselves the “Sons of Liberty,” gathered to plan Georgia’s opposition to British colonial policy. This was Georgia’s first participation in what would become the American Revolution. Nine months earlier, a group in Boston protested British policies by throwing 342 […]

Did you know?

Tondee's Tavern was also the site of the first reading of the Declaration of Independence in Georgia.