QUEEN LODGING | Private exterior access. The largest of the courtyard level rooms, The Eli Whitney provides a private doorway to the luxury inn's inviting west gardens. While smaller beds were the norm in Whitney's time, this queen accommodation conveys the spirit of the post-Revolutionary War era with a vintage rocker, beautiful antique oak dresser and queen sleigh bed. The delicate yellow and blue cheerful bath features an oak chest vanity, decorator sink and claw foot tub with brass ring shower.
Venture into one of America's Top Ten – and best walking – tourist cities. Take a road trip into the Low Country outskirts to recapture a feel for Whitney's rural southern living. Contact Savannah's family-friendly luxury inn
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About Eli Whitney. Of all the post-Revolutionary Americans who grew up without knowing the name for what they felt within themselves, Eli Whitney had the most tortuous entrepreneurial career. Yet more than any other one man, he shaped the opposing faces of both the North and South for a half-century to come.
Fashioned on the Mulberry Grove plantation of Revolutionary General Nathanael Greene, Eli Whitney's cotton gin buoyed southern farmers to realize cotton as a profitable crop while the states of the American colonies became known as the land of “King Cotton.” In the northern states, his invention of manufacturing, based initially upon his milling machine, remained unchanged in principle for a century and a half. Like Alexander Hamilton, he believed that the factory was a benefit to America. He also invented a pattern for the relationship between factory owner and the working hands; but of all his inventions this was the shortest-lived. To learn more about Eli Whitney, click here
Reference Source: www.eliwhitney.org and American Science and Invention: A Pictorial History Mitchell Wilson, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1954; pp. 78-83 |
