Indian Street

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| caption = Indian Street (foreground) and the Talmadge Memorial Bridge. The brick building at right is Savannah College of Art and Design's Hamilton Hall

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| location = Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

| terminus_a = Warner Street

| direction_a = West

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| terminus_b = Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

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Indian Street is a historic street in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It runs for about {{convert|0.34|miles}} from Warner Street in the west to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (part of State Route 25) in the east. It is immediately to the south of the Talmadge Memorial Bridge. The street is so named because it passes through Yamacraw Village,{{Cite web |last=Nussbaum |first=Katie |title=City Hall notebook: Yamacraw Village demo update; fairgrounds site rezoned |url=https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2022/03/25/savannah-ga-city-council-yamacraw-village-fairgrounds-rezoning-housing/7151147001/ |access-date=2022-12-02 |website=Savannah Morning News |language=en-US}} itself named for the Yamacraw Native Americans, who lived on Savannah's Yamacraw Bluff.{{Cite book |title=Public Health Papers and Reports, Volume 5 |publisher=American Public Health Association |year=1880 |pages=90}}

Running parallel to River Street, near its western terminus in the Bay Street Viaduct Area, Indian Street has historically been in a neighborhood of tradespeople important to the early formation of the city.{{Cite web |title=Image 2 of Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3924sm.g3924sm_g015001884/?sp=2&st=image |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}} Established in the early 19th century, by the middle of the century 81 per cent of the residential population in that area was Irish-born, and almost half of that contingent was from County Wexford, Ireland, according to a 2017 study.[https://www.irishgeorgia.com/wex-sav-axis Michael Cash] – IrishGeorgia.com This included stonemason Michael Cash, who moved to Savannah from Blackwater, County Wexford, in the mid-1840s.[https://www.savannahnow.com/special/20190306/five-key-irish-contributors-to-savannahs-history-heritage "Five key Irish contributors to Savannah’s history, heritage"] – Savannah Morning News, 6 March 2019 Almost wholly responsible for the Factors Walk retaining walls, he worked out of a shop on Indian Street.[https://www.savannahnow.com/story/sports/outdoors/2007/03/13/irish-stone-mason-was-major-factor-building-city-landmark/13809545007/ "Irish stone mason was a major factor in building city landmark"] – Savannah Morning News, 13 March 2007 Mingledorff & Co., a boiler company, was located at 510 Indian Street in 1905.{{Cite book |title=The Mechanical Index |year=1905 |pages=61}} In 1925, Western Electric Company, then based on West Broad Street (which became Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard),{{Cite web |last=Griner |first=Ken |title=Looking back at West Broad Street before becoming MLK Blvd. |date=February 11, 2020 |url=https://www.wtoc.com/2020/02/11/looking-back-west-broad-street/ |access-date=2022-04-19 |language=en}} purchased the property at 570 Indian Street, which it remodeled and fitted out for a branch of their factory and distribution works.{{Cite book |title=The Iron Age, Volume 116 |publisher=Chilton Company |year=1925 |pages=589}}

In 2022, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) announced it was building a 17-story, 800-bed dormitory on Indian Street, to be completed by the fall of 2023. Since the location falls just outside the Savannah Historic District, the structure does not need to meet the maximum height restriction that is in place elsewhere in the downtown area.{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Sean |title=SCAD leader discusses details of new 17-story student housing off Indian Street |url=https://www.wtoc.com/2022/04/08/scad-leader-discusses-details-new-17-story-student-housing-off-indian-street/ |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=WTOC |date=April 8, 2022 |language=en}} (SCAD's Hamilton Hall is located at 522 Indian Street. Together with the adjacent Adler Hall, they are known as Indian Street Studios.){{Cite web |title=Hamilton Hall |url=https://www.scad.edu/life/buildings-and-facilities/hamilton-hall |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=SCAD.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Adler Hall |url=https://www.scad.edu/life/buildings-and-facilities/adler-hall |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=SCAD.edu |language=en}} It followed the similarly sized The Baxly, a mixed-use development that opened in 2020 at 630 Indian Street as one of the first multi-family residential buildings with full amenities that had been built in Savannah in sixty years.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Apartments, retail planned for Indian Street |url=https://www.savannahnow.com/story/business/2019/10/25/apartments-retail-planned-for-indian-street/2443426007/ |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=Savannah Morning News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Ribbon Cutting for The Baxly Apartments |url=https://www.savannahchamber.com/news-and-events/events/the-baxly-apartments-ribbon-cutting/ |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=Savannah Chamber |language=en-US}}