Calhoun Square long served as a playground for the adjacent Massie Common School, including annual May Day celebrations, with student dancing around a maypole that continues today. Despite this, a streetcar line passed through the square from 1877 until 1946 in line with Abercorn Street. In 1937 half of the square was beautified.
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Calhoun Square", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-8.30.
Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 156-157.
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