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Named after its founder, the Miller Theater seated over 1600 patrons and was the second-largest theater in Georgia, behind only Atlanta's Fox Theatre (Atlanta). The Miller opened in February 1940 with a sold-out performance of “A Night at the Moulin Rouge”, beginning what would be a 40-year run as one of Augusta's premier entertainment ...
The silent film documents approximately 38 cities, towns, and locations named "Augusta" across the Eastern, Midwestern, Central, and Southern United States.Arranged in no specific order, the film strings together brief scenes and shots of these communities, indicated through intertitles, postcards, or the point of a pencil on a train timetable or road map. [2]
The Miller Theater was formerly a movie theater and reopened in 2018 as the home of the Augusta Symphony and a theatrical space for music, comedy, dance and theatrical performances. The Le Chat Noir Theatre is a new addition to the theater scene in Augusta. [1] The Greater Augusta Youth Theatre is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth theater company ...
Population Mobility: A Study of Family Movements Affecting Augusta, Georgia, 1899-1939 (Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration of Georgia, 1942) online. Jones, Charles Colcock. Memorial History of Augusta, Georgia: From Its Settlement in 1735 to the Close of the Eighteenth Century (D. Mason, 1890) online. Joiner, Sean, and Gerald J ...
While the fate of the Bruin remains unclear, Hollywood director Jason Reitman led a group that bought the nearby Village, which launched as part of the Fox theater chain during the Great Depression.
Bringing this resource closer to the Augusta area's military families has been a long-time passion project for veterans Don Clark and Bob Young, the former mayor of Augusta.
During the mid to late 1810s, downtown Augusta experienced a small epidemic of malaria, which caused little effect in Summerville. In 1820, a major outbreak of fever nearly wiped out the entire garrison at the U.S. Arsenal. After a recommendation from an officer, the U.S. Arsenal purchased land that is the present-day site of Augusta University.
Regency Mall was a major regional mall in South Augusta, Georgia, United States.Located at 1700 Gordon Highway, Regency Mall was open from 1978 to 2002.It was anchored by J.B. White (now Dillard's), Belk (Belk-Howard, but signed as Belk), Montgomery Ward and Cullum's (later Meyers-Arnold and Uptons), and also featured a three-screen movie General Cinema theatre.