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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, and the largest city of the Central Savannah River Area.
Founded in 2008, this league is all-volunteer, and skater owned. ... Memorial History of Augusta, Georgia: From Its Settlement in 1735 to the Close of the Eighteenth ...
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]
Augusta National was founded in 1932 by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts on the 365-acre site of a former nursery/antebellum plantation called Fruitland (later Fruitlands). [9] Jones sought to create a world-class winter golf course in his native state of Georgia.
Before settlement by European colonists, Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures. The Province of Georgia was founded by British General James Oglethorpe at Savannah on February 12, 1733, a year after its creation as a new British colony. [11]
J. B. White was a department store chain in the Southeastern United States founded in Augusta, Georgia in 1874 by James Brice White, an Irish immigrant. [1] In the early 1910s, White sold the store to the H.B. Clafin Company, owner of Lord & Taylor. [2] The store's initial offerings included clothing, furniture, appliances and community ...
Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900–1920 2002. vol 4 of comprehensive history of one county. Scott, Thomas Allan. Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origin of the Suburban South: A Twentieth Century History (2003). Werner, Randolph D. "The New South Creed and the Limits of Radicalism: Augusta, Georgia, before the 1890s."
As revenge, Shultz enlisted the support of property owners on the opposite side of the river, and in 1821 founded the town of Hamburg, South Carolina. The town grew quickly and by the end of 1821 had 84 houses and 200 inhabitants, directly competing with Augusta in its role as an upriver trading point.