Ask anyone on a Savannah pub crawl about the 17Hundred90 and you'll hear about Anne. Staff speak of her fondly, and guests request Room 204 hoping to meet her. Ghost City Tours says that, by most accounts, those guests aren't often disappointed.

The legend comes in several versions, but the core is always the same. A young woman named Anne, often called Anna Powers, fell in love with a sailor. In one telling he was an English seaman who had deserted his ship to be with her. When he went back to sea, or vanished, or chose someone else, she threw herself from a balcony and died on the brick courtyard below. A darker variation, reported by Wikipedia, says she was pushed, perhaps by a rival for the same sailor.

Guests in Room 204 describe belongings rearranged, moved or missing. They also report sheets tugged by unseen hands as they fall asleep, a woman sobbing in the dark corners after the lights go out, and a sense that someone else is in the room. The inn's reputation spread through ghost tours and pub crawls, and through television, including an episode of My Ghost Story. Other guests and staff around the old building tell their own stories, and the tavern bar is where many of those stories get told.