On the morning of August 16, 1923, Savannah stirred to an ordinary summer rhythm: gulls wheeled over the river, tugboats pushed the current, and shops lifted their doors on Bay Street. But by noon the city was a stage for federal warrants, sudden arrests, and headlines that rewrote the local vocabulary. Automobiles were seized, courtrooms filled, and names once confined to neighborhood gossip became fixtures in national news. The raids of that day, and the cases that followed, would etch Savannah into the story of Prohibition not as a city of lone saloons but as a port lattice of smuggling, seizures, and courtroom drama that touched every block of the Historic District.