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Circulation. 17,238 Daily. 19,351 Sunday (as of 2018) [1] ISSN. 0747-1343. Website. augustachronicle.com. The Augusta Chronicle is the daily newspaper of Augusta, Georgia, and is one of the oldest newspapers in the United States still in publication. The paper is known for its coverage of the Masters Tournament, which is played in Augusta.
View of Augusta, from Summerville, 1872, by Harry Fenn; Augusta annexed Summerville in 1912. Augusta, Georgia was founded in 1736 as part of the British colony of Georgia, under the supervision of colony founder James Oglethorpe. It was the colony's second established town, after Savannah. Today, Augusta is the second-largest city in Georgia ...
Augusta Chronicle [1] Augusta: 1785 [3] Daily Morris Communications Company [2] Began as Augusta Gazette in 1785 The Augusta Press: Augusta: 2021 Daily Barnesville Herald-Gazette: Barnesville 1867 Weekly Berrien Press: Nashville Weekly Blackshear Times: Blackshear: Weekly Brunswick News: Brunswick: Daily Bryan County News: Fitzgerald Weekly ...
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 ...
William S. Morris Jr. began working in the media industry in 1929 when he got a job as a bookkeeper at The Augusta Chronicle.He and his wife bought stock in the paper in 1945 and founded Southeastern Newspapers, Inc. [3] They bought the remaining shares of the Chronicle in 1955 and expanded with the purchase of the Augusta Herald.
The Augusta Riot was a collective rebellion of Black citizens in Augusta, Georgia, and the largest urban uprising in the Deep South during the Civil Rights era.Fueled by long-simmering grievances about racial injustice, it was sparked by White officials’ stonewalling in the face of Black citizens’ demand for answers about the beating death of Black teenager Charles Oatman.
Augusta (/ ə ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ə / ə-GUSS-tə) is a city on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia.The city lies directly across the Savannah River from North Augusta, South Carolina at the head of its navigable portion.
The Augusta Chronicle: Daily newspaper: 70,000 [4] Morris Communications: Augusta Medical Examiner: Twice-monthly newspaper Local and national health and medical news: 30,000+ www.AugustaRx.com: The Metro Courier: Weekly newspaper Targeted to the African American community: Metro Spirit: Free newspaper Alternative news weekly: 23,000 [5] The ...