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Tomochichi
c. 1644 to 1739
Yamacraw leader who made the founding of Savannah possible
Native nations and Indigenous peoples
Tomochichi led the Yamacraws, a band of about two hundred Muscogee and Yamasee people who had settled on the bluffs of the Savannah River in about 1730. When James Oglethorpe arrived in 1733, Tomochichi negotiated with him, with Mary Musgrove interpreting, and then helped the new colony through its first years. In 1734 he sailed to England and met King George II at Kensington Palace, where he gave the king eagle feathers as a sign of peace.
He died in 1739 and was buried in the middle of the town, in Wright Square, with military honors, under a pyramid of stones that was gone by the late 1700s. The monument at the center of the square today honors a later citizen, William Washington Gordon. On the Savannah walk, look in the southeast part of Wright Square for a large rough granite boulder with a copper plate: set there in 1899, it is the stone that honors him now.
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Where to meet them
Savannah
- Savannah City HallStop 3, Savannah, the River, the Squares and Forsyth Park
- Johnson SquareStop 4, Savannah, the River, the Squares and Forsyth Park
- Wright SquareStop 5, Savannah, the River, the Squares and Forsyth Park
- Forsyth Park and the fountainStop 12, Savannah, the River, the Squares and Forsyth Park