The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Augusta, Georgia, USA.
18th century edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
References edit
Bibliography edit
- 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 edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Augusta, Georgia.
- "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