The 1733-established city of roughly 130, 000 inhabitants has an aura as shaggy-chic as its fabled live oaks maned in Spanish moss.

WSJ: Journal Concierge: A Guide to Savannah, Ga.

The surrounding marsh, shrieking cicadas, and Spanish moss hanging like frayed gray scarves, not a breeze to stir it made the property feel almost secluded.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

Southern and lowcountry architectural building styles are dictated by the parameters of the gated community, which is filled with tall live oaks dripping with Spanish moss.

WSJ: Southern Living in the Round

With its golf holes playing out to the sea and salt marsh, its dunes patrolled by brown pelicans, and lanes overhung with Spanish moss, Sea Island has the air of a genteel, hidden enclave, at ease and above the fray.

FORBES: Sea Island Renaissance

Cherokee Plantation , six owners later, is a Spanish-moss-draped monument to selective southern hospitality.

FORBES: Million-Dollar Grits