Old City Jail (Savannah, Georgia) — status uncertain

The supplied materials reference a generic "city jail" in Savannah in connection with historical events (for example, a mid-20th-century protest in which roughly 2,000 protestors gathered outside the city jail), and include multiple archival documents that mention jails and arrests in Georgia. However, the document set does not contain a focused, corroborated construction history, address, or operation dates for an Old City Jail specifically located in Savannah, Georgia. Several prominent sources in the set instead concern the Old Charleston Jail in Charleston, South Carolina (e.g., an 1802 construction date, an address at 21 Magazine Street, and renovation into an event venue), and a ghost-hunting article that discusses the Charleston site. Because the sources conflate or mix references to different jails and jurisdictions, the existence of a well-documented, named "Old City Jail" in Savannah with verifiable historic or paranormal details cannot be established from the provided material. Reported phenomena tied explicitly to an Old City Jail in Savannah do not appear in the supplied sources. The only paranormal-related item in the set is an article about ghost hunting at the Old Charleston Jail (Charleston, SC), which implies hauntings at that Charleston facility but does not provide specific phenomena in the provided excerpt. The archival and historical references that do mention jails in Savannah focus on civic, legal, and protest history rather than on folkloric or ghost accounts. As a result, any folkloric or paranormal claims about an Old City Jail in Savannah remain unsubstantiated by the current source set. Culturally, city jails in the American South—including those in Savannah and Charleston—feature in regional history as sites of incarceration, protest, wartime detention, and racial conflict; such roles often make them loci for heritage interpretation and, elsewhere, for supernatural folklore. The supplied sources demonstrate that the Old Charleston Jail has become a subject of both preservation and paranormal interest, but they do not provide comparable evidence that an Old City Jail in Savannah holds an established paranormal reputation or a documented historic profile.