The Old Garden in Skidaway’s Back Room

Fun Fact!  In the early 1980’s, the back of the popular private Banquet Room, featured a real garden, planted originally by Kathleen Hilliard, the founder’s wife.  Kathleen loved plants, and also hand-picked the stain glass flowers still between the booths! Robert Henson, current General Manager, remembers the garden well, because he tended to it, at…

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Hwy. 21’s Sign Gets a Facelift

From General Counsel Hwy. 21’s iconic and massive “Carey Hilliard’s” Pylon Sign is being totally rebuilt.  Only the Pylons and sheet metal will remain.  The Sign will feature new: neon, transformers, and most notably, replacing the yellow Arrow-bulbs to 3 solid strokes (lines) of neon – giving the sign a more streamlined look. Also, this is…

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Waters Avenue Gets a New Roof

If you’ve driven past, or stopped into the Waters Ave. location over the past few weeks, you may have noticed the new RED ROOF going up.  Yes, the brown leaky shingles are a thing of the past.  The new roof matches the classic Carey Hilliard’s red roof at the other locations in Savannah, Pooler and…

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