ABSTRACT
The city’s efforts to have Savannah’s City Plan listed on the World Heritage List go back over seventeen years. In 1990, I received a copy of a master’s thesis from Catherine Louise Wilson-Martin, a historic preservation master’s candidate at the University of Georgia. The title of her thesis was UNESCO World Heritage List: An Assessment of the City of Savannah. At the same time, the City of Savannah and Chatham County governments and numerous other civic, business, governmental, and cultural organizations and private individuals were engaged in an ongoing county-wide goal-setting process called Vision 2020. In 1992, Vision 2020 published its recommendations, including one that Savannah should pursue nomination to the World Heritage List. Subsequently, a twenty-one member World Heritage Committee was established with Emma (Mrs. Leopold) Adler as its chair.
