Richmond Hill Travel Guide

Try Ft McAlister at the end of Highway 144 (spur) the last stand of the confederate army. A realy earie place!. Also worth a look is Ft Pulaski on the way to Tybee Island.
Just so incredible!

Fish Tales cooks every meal to order and while waiting for your food you can always be kept busy checking out the waterfront activities, the wall and ceiling decorations or any of the TV's focused on sports or news.

The restaurant is located on a riverbank adjacent to a marina so there seems to always be some activities going on.

Much like a Margaritaville, Fish Tales is cozy and casual, and both looks and feels like a locals hang-out....which it is. You can also dine indoors or outdoors and enjoy a full bar and specials each day.

Favorite Dish: ANYTHING seafood as it will be fresh and cooked to order.

You must try the hush puppies with any of your meal. They are awesome.

I loved the shrimp basket the past two times I have eaten here.

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They charged $1/foot and $2.50 for electric. Their floating docks are wooden on blue barrels, so you have to walk carefully as they bounce around a bit. When you stop on it, it gives under your weight. The bigger pieces just give a little, but the smaller connector ones dip down a lot. It is like walking on a jungle suspension bridge. Since their pay phone wasn't too reliable, he let me use his only phone line to download e-mail. No cable at the boat, and we could get reception on only two good channels with the antenna. There were several boats anchored up from the marina. The anchorage looked as protected as anything in this flat country ever is. I have no pictures of this area because there's nothing to take a picture of.

Equipment: The chart segment has a mark on it for an anchorage, but the marina (and another anchorage) is farther up the creek. On this chart the marina is on the left right next to the word Kilkenny.

Favorite thing: Richmond Hill is a suburb of Savannah - about 20 miles away.

According to the history books, a few miles north of here where the US 17 bridge crosses the Ogeechee River was the site of a defeat of the British during the Revolution. A Colonial colonel and 5 other men used widely spaced watch fires and misleading calls to imaginary sentinels to convince the British force that they outnumbered the 5 ships and 130 men which intended to capture Savannah. Riding into the British camp alone the next morning, the American leader demanded the unconditional surrender, and they did so.

Fondest memory: Another claim to fame for Richmond is that Clara Ford (Henry Ford's wife) built a her dream home here in 1925 on the site of Richmond Plantation which was burned in Sherman's March to the Sea during the Civil War.

- Historic Points of Interest -
FORT MCALLISTER STATE PARK
STRATHY HALL (circa 1840)-Early "Plantation Plain" Style
FOLLY FARMS(circa 1850)-Originally Myrtle Grove Plantation
BRYAN NECK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-1885
BURNT CHURCH CEMETERY
BRYAN NECK MISSIONARY BAPTIST - 1869
KILKENNY HOUSE (circa 1837) - Early Greek Revival
FORT MCALLISTER STATE PARK & MUSEUM (Admission $2; ages 5-18 $1)
RICHMOND HILL MUSEUM (was the FORD KINDERGARTEN MUSEUM) - Ford Memorabilia (1937)
FORD COURTHOUSE (1938)
FORD COMMUNITY HOUSE (1936)
MARTHA-MARY CHAPEL (1936) Now St. Anne's Catholic Church
FORD PLANTATION (1935) On The Ogeechee River

Recreation -
FORT MCALLISTER MARINA
KILKENNY MARINA & CAMPGROUND
KOA CAMPGROUND
WATERWAY RV PARK
BLACK CREEK GOLF CLUB
WATERFORD LANDING GOLF COURSE

Unfortunately, except for the Kilkenny Marina, I have not managed to see any of these things.