The city of Savannah began as an encampment on a 40-foot bluff overlooking the Savannah River. Between the mid-1700s and mid-1800s, the city became one of the country's busiest ports, principally for cotton but also for locally grown rice. The bluff, however, presented a challenge to doing business along the riverfront. The solution, developed over the course of a century or so, incorporated warehouses (not shown here) facing the water at river level, and offices built atop them for the business agents, or factors. Stairways and cobbled paths lead from the riverfront to the top of the bluff; walkways like these connect the bluff to the offices.
Today the offices are occupied by antique dealers and the like; the riverside is lined mainly with bar-restaurants, candy stores, and souvenir shops.
Factors Walk
Between Bay St. and River St., Savannah, Georgia
