Anna Colquitt Hunter

Anna Habersham Hunter ( Colquitt; January 21, 1892 – January 28, 1985) was an American preservationist, and a founder of the Historic Savannah Foundation in 1955.

Early life Hunter was a descendant of James Habersham (1712–1775), a pioneering merchant and statesman in the British North American colony of Georgia. She was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1892, but also grew up in South Carolina.

She was a graduate of Agnes Scott College, but left to marry George Lewis Cope Hunter, son of James Henry Hunter and Harriet Cope, who was a student of agriculture at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

George died in 1936, aged 44, leaving his widow with three children to support. The following year, a funeral home was set to purchase the Isaiah Davenport House in Columbia Square and tear it down for a parking lot.

"What began as an effort to save one house quickly turned into an organized movement that went on to save an entire city." – Historic Savannah Foundation She is buried with her husband, whom she survived by 49 years, in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery.

Legacy In 2024, a monument in Columbia Square was commissioned to honor the seven women who began the preservation movement in Savannah. Alongside Hunter's name will be Katherine Judkins Clark, Elinor Adler Dillard, Lucy Barrow McIntire, Dorothy Ripley Roebling, Nola McEvoy Roos and Jane Adair Wright.