Crawford Square
at Houston and East McDonough Streets
Named for Savannah's own William Harris Crawford, who ran against John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay in the 1824 Presidential election, an election which was finally decided in favor of Adams in the U. S. House of Representatives. While on the same east-west axis as the two squares named for battles in the War of 1812, Crawford Square represents a later period in neighborhood development (1840) and thus commemorates local involvement in a later event.
Crawford Square is the only square dedicated to neighborhood recreation, and is the only square still surrounded by fencing, once characteristic of all 24 squares. It also houses the only remaining cistern cover, dating from the period in which cisterns in the squares were the water supply for fighting fires.
Carroll Green