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Even if you have not visited Savannah, its name probably evokes in you an image of shady parks and boulevards crowned by the embracing limbs of ancient live oaks. Walking under these trees on a summer day one marvels at the foresight of the early Park and Tree Commission that, as early as 1894 envisioned the city as a unified sequence of streets and squares cooled and beautified by an ever-increasing urban forest.
The Commission first transplanted trees from the forest into the historic core of the city, transforming at the same time the utilitarian streets and squares of the Oglethorpe plan into parks and boulevards that graced neighborhoods and commercial space. As Savannah grew and outlying neighborhoods developed, a mantle of trees covered these, too. Such was the presence of trees in Savannah that, by the middle of the 20th century, it had earned the title of the "Forest City."
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