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Timeline of Augusta, Georgia

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Augusta, Georgia, USA.

18th century

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1740 - Savannah-Augusta "highway" constructed.^[1]
1750 - St. Paul's Church established.^[1]
1779 - January 29: Augusta taken by British forces.^[2]
1780 - Georgia state capital relocated to Augusta.^[1]
1781
- April 16: Siege of Augusta by American forces begins.^[2]
- May: British-occupied Fort Grierson taken by American forces.^[1]
1785 - Academy of Richmond County opens.^[1]
1789
- Town of Augusta incorporated.^[1]
- The Augusta Chronicle newspaper in publication.^[3]
1790
- "Negro" Baptist Church established.^[4]
- Government House built.^[1]
1791
- May: U.S. president George Washington visits Augusta.^[1]
- Bridge built across Savannah River.^[5]
1792 - John Milton becomes mayor.
1795 - Meadow Garden built as summer house of George Walton, youngest signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.^[1]

19th century

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1802 - Wray's drug store in business.^[6]
1805 - Methodist church built (approximate date).^[6]
1808 - Library Company and Thespian Society founded.^[1]
1810 - Bank of Augusta established.^[1]
1812 - First Presbyterian Church built.^[1]
1815 - Catholic church built (approximate date).^[6]
1817 - City of Augusta incorporated.^[7]
1818 - Magnolia Cemetery in use.^[1]
1819 - Augusta Arsenal built.^[1]
1820 - First Baptist Church built.^[6]
1821
- Town of Hamburg established in South Carolina across the river from Augusta.^[6]
- Free School Society (charity) formed.^[1]
1822 - Medical Society incorporated.^[1]
1824 - City Hall built.^[8]
1825 - Lafayette visits Augusta.^[1]
1827 - Library Society founded.^[1]
1828
- Medical Academy of Georgia founded.^[1]
- Unitarian church built.^[6]
1829 - April 3: Fire.^[7]
1830 - Population: 6,710.^[9]
1833 - Charleston-Augusta railway begins operating.
1836 - Broad Street fire.^[6]
1837
- Georgia Railroad (Augusta-Berzelia) begins operating.^[1]
- Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel newspaper begins publication.^[3]^[10]
1840 - Yellow fever epidemic.^[1]
1845 - Southern Baptist Convention founded at a meeting in Augusta.^[2]
1847 - Augusta Canal built.^[7]
1848
- Young Men's Library Association formed.^[11]
- Signers Monument dedicated.^[1]
1850 - Population: 9,448.^[9]
1854
- Augusta and Savannah Railroad begins operating.^[1]
- Yellow fever epidemic.^[1]
1858 - Fruitland Nurseries in business.^[12]
1860 - Population: 12,493.^[9]
1861 - January 24: U.S. arsenal occupied by Confederate forces of Georgia state.^[2]
1862
- Confederate Powderworks begins operating.
- St. Patrick's Church built.^[1]
1863 - April: Photo-illustrated wanted poster introduced.^[13]
1864 - January: Flood.^[10]
1865
- U.S. Army takes city.^[1]
- Colored American newspaper begins publication.
1866 - State Freedmen's Conventions held in Augusta.^[14]
1867 - Augusta Institute (later Morehouse College) established.^[15]
1869
- "Iron works factory" in business.^[16]
- Synagogue built.^[17]
1870 - Cotton States Mechanics and Agricultural Fair held in Augusta.
1877 - Augusta Evening News begins publication.^[3]
1878 - Augusta Confederate Monument dedicated.^[1]
1879 - Augusta Institute relocated to Atlanta from Augusta.^[16]
1880 - Population: 21,891.^[9]
1882 - Paine Institute established.^[15]
1886 - Haines Normal and Industrial Institute founded.^[18]
1890 - Augusta Herald newspaper begins publication.^[3]
1892 - Negro Press Association of Georgia formed during meeting in Augusta.^[19]
1894 - Buffalo kindergarten opens.^[20]

20th century

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1900 - Population: 39,441.^[9]
1908 - Flood.^[1]
1909 - Church of the Immaculate Conception established.^[1]
1910 - Springfield Baptist Church built.^[1]
1912
- Flood.^[1]
- "Street railway strike" occurs.^[1]
- Summerville becomes part of Augusta.^[1]
1916
- Fire.^[1]
- Levee and United States Post Office and Courthouse built.^[1]
1917 - U.S. military Camp Gordon and Camp Hancock established near Augusta.^[16]
1918 - Imperial Theatre opens.^[21]
1919 - City's "first paved four-lane highway" opens.^[22]
1926 - Junior College of Augusta established.^[1]
1933 - Augusta Museum^[1] and Augusta National Golf Club established.
1934
- C.T. Walker Traditional Magnet School is established.
- WRDW radio begins broadcasting.^[23]
1935 - City bicentennial.^[1]
1937 - August: Blood drive organized.^[13]
1940 - Augusta Drive-In cinema in business.^[21]
1945 - September 15: Future opera star Jessye Norman born in Augusta.^[16]
1948 - City manager form of government adopted.^[10]
1949 - Lucy Craft Laney High School established.
1950 - Bush Field begins operating as a civilian airport.^[16]
1953 - WJBF-TV (television) begins broadcasting.^[24]
1954 - WRDW-TV (television) begins broadcasting.^[24]
1961 - Augusta Area Vocational-Technical School founded.^[16]
1970 - May 11–13: Racial unrest.^[16]
1978 - Augusta Mall in business.^[25]
1996 - "City of Augusta consolidated with Richmond County to form Augusta-Richmond County."^[26]
1997 - April 24: African-American golfer Tiger Woods, age 21, wins 1997 Masters Tournament.^[16]

21st century

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2005 - John Barrow becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 12th congressional district.^[27]
2010 - Population: 195,844.^[28]
2014 - Ice storm.^[29]
2015
- Hardie Davis becomes mayor.
- Rick W. Allen becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 12th congressional district.^[30]

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al Federal Writers' Project 1940.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

^ John Wesley Cromwell (1914). The Negro in American History. Washington, DC: American Negro Academy.

^ Browne 1841.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Sherwood 1860.

^ ^a ^b ^c Waring 1887.

^ Appleton 1889.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998

^ ^a ^b ^c "Dates of the Millennium", Augusta Chronicle, January 3, 1999

^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved September 15, 2016.

^ Michael Reynolds (Winter 2002–2003). "History of Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, Georgia, and the Berckmans Family in America" (PDF). Magnolia: Bulletin of the Southern Garden History Society. 18. Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

^ ^a ^b Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.

^ "Conventions Organized by Year". Colored Conventions. University of Delaware. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

^ ^a ^b F. Erik Brooks; Glenn L. Starks (2011). "Time Line". Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-39415-7.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hellmann 2005.

^ "Augusta, Georgia". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved September 13, 2016.

^ Cashin 2001.

^ Donald Lee Grant (1993). The Way it was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2329-9.

^ Kindergarten News, vol. 6, Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, 1896, pp. 26 v, hdl:2027/uc1.a0001403948 – via HathiTrust

^ ^a ^b "Movie Theaters in Augusta, GA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 13, 2016.

^ "This Day in the Millennium", Augusta Chronicle, April 6, 1999

^ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Georgia", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636

^ ^a ^b Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Georgia", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206

^ "Dates of the Millennium", Augusta Chronicle, August 3, 1999

^ "History". Augusta, GA - Official Website. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

^ "Georgia". Official Congressional Directory. 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 2005. hdl:2027/mdp.49015002997139 – via HathiTrust.

^ "Augusta-Richmond County (balance), Georgia". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

^ Ferguson, Amanda (12 February 2019). "Ice Storm of February 2014". 100 Years 100 Stories. Blanchard and Calhoun. Retrieved March 4, 2019.

^ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington DC. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

Bibliography

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Augusta Directory. Augusta, Ga.: Browne & McCaffery. 1841.

John P. Campbell, ed. (1854). "Georgia: Richland County". Southern Business Directory. Charleston, SC: Press of Walker & James.

Directory for the City of Augusta. R.A. Watkins. 1859 – via HathiTrust.

Adiel Sherwood (1860), "Richmond County: Augusta", Gazetteer of Georgia (4th ed.), Macon: S. Boykin

George E. Waring, Jr.; U.S. Department of the Interior, Census Office (1887), "Georgia: Augusta", Report on the Social Statistics of Cities: Southern and the Western States, Washington DC: Government Printing Office, pp. 163–168

"Augusta". Western and Southern States. Appletons' General Guide to the United States and Canada. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1889.

Charles C. Jones; Salem Dutcher (1890). Memorial History of Augusta, Georgia. D. Mason.

F.H. Richardson (1905). "Augusta, Ga.". Richardson's Southern Guide. Chicago: Monarch Book Company – via Internet Archive.

"Augusta", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437

"Augusta (Georgia)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 904–905.

Federal Writers' Project (1938). Augusta. American Guide Series. OCLC 1411325.

Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Augusta", Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside, American Guide Series, Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. 192–213, ISBN 9781603540100 – via Google Books

Edward J. Cashin; Glenn T. Eskew, eds. (2001). Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2257-5.

Sean Joiner; Gerald Smith (2004). Augusta. Black America. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4396-1270-5.

Paul T. Hellmann (2005). "Georgia: Augusta". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. pp. 219–220. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Augusta, Georgia.

"Augusta", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council
"Today in Georgia History". Georgia Historical Society; Georgia Public Broadcasting.
Items related to Augusta, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
Georgia Heritage Room, Augusta: Augusta-Richmond County Public Library

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