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
- 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
- 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
- 1866 - State Freedmen's Conventions held in Augusta. [14]
- 1867 - Augusta Institute (later Morehouse College) established. [15]
- 1869
- 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
- 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
- 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]
See also
- History of Augusta, Georgia
- List of mayors of Augusta, Georgia
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond County, Georgia
- Timelines of other cities in Georgia: Athens, Atlanta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah
References
- ^ 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
- 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
- . 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.
External links
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- "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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