Old Fort is a historic neighborhood of

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. Today part of Hitch Village, in the early 19th century it was home to the working-class Irish and African American populations of the city. The neighborhood was substantially shrunk through development of the 1950s. St. James African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, on East Broad Street, is part of the Old Fort district.

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{{Reflist Neighborhoods in Georgia (U.S. state) Geography of Savannah, Georgia

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