SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A brand-new monument unveiled in Savannah on September 20, 2025, honors the seven ladies who saved a prominent part of the hostess city’s history - The Davenport House.

WTOC spoke with a descendent of one of those women, Lucy Smith Brannen, who’s continuing her family’s legacy of change here in our city.

“I’m the granddaughter of Lucy McIntyre, one of the seven ladies,” Brannen says.

“In 1955, Savannah was at a turning point and many of the older homes were being torn down for the artifacts that were in them,” Brannen says. “The Davenport House was about to be torn down and turned into a parking lot.”

Her grandmother, along with six others, organized in their community and saved the house in 1955. After that, they formed the Historic Savannah Foundation.

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