Suggs’ Broughton Street grocery catches fire.

Mayor John M. McDonough’s Annual Report for the year ending 13 December 1894 contained this tidbit under “Fires and Alarms”:

Sanborn fire insurance map of Savannah, Georgia, 1888.

This 13 August 1894  Savannah Morning News article sheds light on the fire and reveals that Daniel C. Suggs had a sideline as a grocer.

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