Monterey Square

Laid out in 1847 to honor the U.S. capture of Monterrey during the Mexican-American War, Monterey Square centers on a marble monument to General Casimir Pulaski, the Polish-born Revolutionary War hero who died from wounds sustained during the Siege of Savannah. The body of an unknown Revolutionary soldier, speculated by some to be Pulaski himself, is said to rest beneath it. The Mercer-Williams House — made famous by John Berendt's *Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil* — faces the square, as does Congregation Mickve Israel, one of the few Gothic-style synagogues in America, dating from 1878.