For five blocks between and Oglethorpe and Lafayette Squares, Abercorn Street forms the western boundary of Colonial Park Cemetery,[4] which was established in 1750 (274 years ago) (1750).
John Houstoun, Savannah's first mayor, lived in the Houston–Johnson–Screven House, at 32 Abercorn Street, which was built around 1784. The home was demolished in 1920 to make way for the Lucas Theatre.[6]
We drove south on Abercorn Street. Within a few blocks, the restrained architecture of the historic district gave way to late-Victorian flights of fancy — big old wooden houses with romantic towers, gables, and elaborate gingerbread trim. A few were restored, but most were in very poor condition.
In the subsequent 1997 movie, The Lady Chablis says her fourth boyfriend "is a mechanic over there on Abercorn", to which John Cusack's character John Kelso replies, "I know where that is." A celebration of the life of The Lady Chablis took place at the Lucas Theatre on Abercorn Street in November 2016, following her death two months earlier.[8]