Timeline of Augusta, Georgia

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

18th century

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

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: Federal arsenal occupied by Georgia state forces.[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
- Federal 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

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 - 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

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

References

Federal Writers' Project 1940.
Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
"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.
Sherwood 1860.
Waring 1887.
Appleton 1889.
Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
"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. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 18.
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.
F. Erik Brooks; Glenn L. Starks (2011). "Time Line". Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-39415-7.
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, 6, Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, 1896 – via HathiTrust
"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
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. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 2005 – via HathiTrust.
"Augusta-Richmond County (balance), Georgia". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington DC. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

Bibliography

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.
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", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
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 – 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.

External links

"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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[FOOTNOTEFederal_Writers'_Project1940-1] Federal Writers' Project 1940.

[Gross1990-2] Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.

[LOC-3] "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

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

[FOOTNOTEBrowne1841-5] Browne 1841.

[FOOTNOTESherwood1860-6] Sherwood 1860.

[FOOTNOTEWaring1887-7] Waring 1887.

[FOOTNOTEAppleton1889-8] Appleton 1889.

[census1998-9] Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998

[3January-Millenium-10] "Dates of the Millennium", Augusta Chronicle, January 3, 1999

[davies-11] Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved September 15, 2016.

[12] 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. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 18.

[Robertson2011-13] Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.

[ColoredConventions-14] "Conventions Organized by Year". Colored Conventions. University of Delaware. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

[Brooks2011-15] F. Erik Brooks; Glenn L. Starks (2011). "Time Line". Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-39415-7.

[FOOTNOTEHellmann2005-16] Hellmann 2005.

[Goldring-17] "Augusta, Georgia". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved September 13, 2016.

[FOOTNOTECashin2001-18] Cashin 2001.

[Grant1993-19] 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.

[20] Kindergarten News, 6, Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, 1896 – via HathiTrust

[cinema-21] "Movie Theaters in Augusta, GA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 13, 2016.

[6April-Millenium-22] "This Day in the Millennium", Augusta Chronicle, April 6, 1999

[Alicoate1939-23] Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Georgia", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636

[Alicoate1960-24] Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Georgia", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206

[3August-Millenium-25] "Dates of the Millennium", Augusta Chronicle, August 3, 1999

[26] "History". Augusta, GA - Official Website. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

[27] "Georgia". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 2005 – via HathiTrust.

[quickfacts2010-28] "Augusta-Richmond County (balance), Georgia". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

[GovTrack-29] Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington DC. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

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