Why it matters
Crawford Square is named for William H. Crawford, a Georgia statesman and Secretary of the Treasury who nearly won the presidency in 1824. The square sits in the southeast ward, a quiet residential area between the busier central district and Forsyth Park.
Like many of Savannah's smaller squares, Crawford reads best as a neighborhood room rather than a destination. Its value is in what it does for the streets around it: slowing the traffic, providing shade, breaking the block, and giving the residential fabric a civic center.
The squares that nobody visits are doing the most important work.