Chatham Savannah Authority for the Homeless and the Garden Club of Savannah will host The Cove at Dundee Tiny House community’s Blue Star Memorial Marker Celebration on November 7th at 10:00 a.m. at 75 Dundee Street. The Blue Star Program honors all men and women who serve in the United States Armed Services. The Blue Star Memorial Highway program has placed memorial markers across thousands of miles of the United States to honor the armed forces that have served our country. The Cove at Dundee was nominated for a Blue Star Memorial Marker by the Garden Club of Savannah

The program began in 1944 with the planting of 8,000 Dogwood trees by the New Jersey Council of Garden Clubs as a living memorial to veterans of World War II. In 1945, the National Council of State Garden Clubs (now NGC, Inc.) adopted this program and began a Blue Star Highway system that covers thousands of miles across the Continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. Blue Star Memorial Highway Markers were placed along the way. The Blue Star was adopted because it had become an icon in World War II and was seen on flags and banners in homes for sons and daughters away at war and in churches and businesses.

The Cove At Dundee reduces veteran homelessness by providing a community of permanent, affordable tiny homes. Savannah’s Veteran’s Tiny House Project was the first of its kind in the state of Georgia and has become the model and impetus of numerous tiny house villages supporting the needs of veterans experiencing homelessness throughout the United States. Since its inception, the community has provided homes for more than 125 veterans exiting homelessness. The community has 46 tiny homes, 2 clubhouses with a laundromat, a medical clinic, gardens, a walking path, and a pavilion.