FOR THOSE LIVING IN SAVANNAH TODAY, it’s easy to take the city’s exquisite beauty, revered squares, and well-preserved charm for granted. But if not for seven determined women — Katharine Judkins Clark, Elinor Adler Dillard, Anna Colquitt Hunter, Lucy Barrow McIntire, Dorothy Ripley Roebling, Nola McEvoy Roos, and Jane Adair Wright — who saved much of Savannah from the wrecking ball in the 1950s and beyond, we would be living in a remarkably different city.

Descendants of the seven original preservationists have been working with the Savannah-based DePue Monument Co. to design the bronze and granite monument, which will be unveiled this fall. It will be a slant monument, between 4 to 5 feet tall, and curved at the top, with the seven ladies’ likenesses in bas-relief. The monument will be situated just north of the fountain in Columbia Square, with a view of the Davenport House just behind it.