<P> In 1730, South Carolina organized eleven frontier townships to buffer the more developed Low Country settlements . Savannah Town was incorporated into the Parish and Township of New Windsor . In 1737, 200 settlers from Appenzell, Switzerland colonized New Windsor; descendants of the Tobler, Zubly, Nagel, Sturzenegger, and Meyer families are part of local history . </P> <P> Savannah Town gained a competitor in 1735 with the founding of Augusta, five river miles upstream on the Georgia side of the Savannah River . The new Colony of Georgia took good advantage of the settlement's superior position, closer to the bulk of the interior Indian settlements, to attract traders to Augusta . Georgia colonists worked to deflect commercial traffic to their own Atlantic coastal seaport at Savannah . </P> <P> By 1740 the prospect for Savannah Town was a matter of dispute . During the Cherokee war of 1760, Fort Moore harbored militia and refugees, but by 1765, the town as such had disappeared, and the fort was closed . </P> <P> Savannah Town, variously called Savano Town, Savanaton or Old Savannah, was located at 33 ° 26'18 "N, 81 ° 54'32" W (NAD83 / WGS84), 225 river miles above the port of Savannah . The closest modern town is Beech Island, South Carolina . (Related names of settlements are the city of Savannah, Georgia, founded in 1733 at the mouth of the river by James Oglethorpe, and New Savannah, a Chickasaw town located downstream on the Georgia side of the river .) </P>

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