White Bluff was a collection of communities—Nicholsonboro, Rose Dhu, Twin Hill, and Cedar Grove—located in
Chatham County, Georgia, United States, and now part of
Savannah. In 1940, as part of research published in ''Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes'', the total population was estimated at 400.
[ The communities were centered on White Bluff Road, eight miles southeast of Savannah.
''Drum and Shadows'' describes White Bluff as a "quiet Negro community" where " moss-hung oaks form a canopy and cast filigreed shadows" upon the community's main road. Many of its older (as of 1940) inhabitants were former slaves on a large ]plantation
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on St. Catherines Island owned by Jacob Waldburg. They moved to White Bluff in 1868 after Waldburg reclaimed the island, which after the Civil War
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had been briefly reserved for freed slaves by General Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15.[''Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes'' (]1940
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According to the 1869 book ''Historical Record of the City of Savannah'', the community at that time had two hotels and several summer homes. Additionally, the book states that in 1740, there had been a Dutch
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settlement at the location.
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Public domain image from ''Drums and Shadows''
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Nicholsonboro Church
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