1799; 1970–1971 relandscaped, Sam Monk
In the colonial era a town gate stood on this site, at the edge of the East Common, and from 1877 until 1946 a streetcar line passed through the square in line with Habersham Street. In 1970–1971 it was renovated with financing from an Urban Beautification Grant through the federal urban renewal program, with the design by Monk, the director of Savannah’s Park and Tree Department. Under the patronage of Eudora and Wainwright Roebling, the Art Nouveau fountain sitting incongruously in a brick pool in the square’s center was moved in 1971 from the gardens of Wormsloe Plantation (18.1); it honors the memory of Augusta and Wymberley Wormsloe De Renne (son of George Wymberley Jones De Renne).