Pooler: Sherman Slept Here, Then a Suburb Exploded

Pooler takes its name from Robert William Pooler, the Central of Georgia Railroad president who sited the first rail station west of Savannah here in eighteen thirty-eight. On December ninth, eighteen sixty-four, General William T. Sherman and his army camped beside that very station as they prepared to besiege Savannah.

The famous March to the Sea ended in a field right here. After the Civil War, fewer than two hundred people lived in the isolated community. Then Interstate Ninety-Five arrived in the nineteen seventies, the Savannah airport had already relocated nearby in nineteen fifty, and by the nineteen nineties Pooler was transforming into one of the fastest-growing cities in Georgia.

By two thousand ten the census had confirmed it: Pooler had become a major suburban and retail hub almost overnight.