Cambridge Chronicle recently issued the following announcement.
With America’s Bicentennial year only months away Augustans got the bad news some suspected and others dreaded.
The state of Georgia was going to cut funding it had long spent to support the city’s Mackay House or White House on Broad Street, a site several old Augustans long proclaimed an important part of the American Revolution.
The structure, which we now call the Ezekiel Harris House, was not old enough to have been standing during the Revolution, state and national experts determined. It wasn’t what Augustans said it was and it wasn’t the scene of the hanging of 13 Patriot prisoners – one for each rebellious colony, as local legend maintained. It was just the home of early businessman and merchant Ezekiel Harris, probably built about 1797.
In all likelihood, the true Mackay House was located closer to the Savannah River and probably destroyed during the real fighting in 1781, the experts said.
Original source can be found here.
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