The John Montmollin Warehouse (also known as the John Montmollin Building ) is a building in Savannah, Georgia , United States. It is located on Barnard Street in the northwestern civic block of Ellis Square , in Savannah's City Market . It was constructed in 1855, 35 years after the first building on the square, the Thomas Gibbons Range .
7-519: Owned by John S. Montmollin , between the mid-1850s and 1864 the building was used to trade African American slaves , even after president Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation . They were held there until their fate became known. The building's third floor was owned by Alexander Bryan, who later took over the whole of the premises after Montmollin's death in June 1859. The building
14-732: The US$ 11,500 (equivalent to $ 389,978 in 2023) construction of a still-extant three-story brick building now known as the John Montmollin Warehouse . The third floor was a slave pen (after the city was occupied by Union troops during the American Civil War the building was turned into a school for the city's African-American children, most of whom had never before had the opportunity to learn how to read or write). In December 1858 Montmollin sought to purchase "one or two gangs of rice field Negros." According to his daughter-in-law, who
21-529: The Montmollin home in 1802 while visiting Savannah. Montmollin married at Savannah, in 1842, Miss Harriet M. Rossignol. In 1848, he was a city marshal of Savannah, where he owned a plantation. Montmollin was president of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Savannah, which had been organized in 1854, and had capital amounting to US$ 250,000 (equivalent to $ 2,712,085 in 2023) in 1857. Beginning in 1856, he funded
28-573: The hips, some seventy to eighty yards from where the explosion occurred, showing it must have been driven very high into the air. A handkerchief, which he had in his hand at the time of the accident, was still tight in his grasp." Montmollin was killed "within a short distance of the spot where his [ Wanderer ] captives had been incarcerated" on an island in the Savannah River. Following Montmollin's death, his widow found that "her husband died owing debts of more than $ 30,000" and so in 1863 petitioned
35-491: Was an American slave trader , banker and plantation owner. According to descendants, Montmollin was heavily involved in the organization of the illegal slave transport Wanderer . Montmollin died in a steamboat boiler explosion on the Savannah River in 1859. Montmollin's maternal grandfather was Jonathan Edwards the younger, thus he was a first cousin, once removed , to Aaron Burr ; as vice president, Burr stayed at
42-409: Was interviewed in 1931, Montmollin sought to reopen the transatlantic slave trade and was responsible for organizing the illegal human trafficking transport Wanderer in 1858. John S. Montmollin was one of approximately eleven people killed when a boiler exploded on the Savannah River steamboat John G. Lawton on June 9, 1859. His body was found "imbedded in the marsh, head downwards, to
49-727: Was liberated by U.S. troops in the course of General Sherman 's " March to the Sea " in November and December 1864. This article about a building or structure in the U.S. state of Georgia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to the history of the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . John S. Montmollin John Samuel de Montmollin II (1808 – June 9, 1859) of Savannah, Georgia ,
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