Augusta, Georgia, USA
1895 - Augusta

Augusta, a handsome city of Georgia, the capital of Richmond co., is on the Savannah River, 271 miles from its mouth, and at the E. terminus of the Georgia Railroad, 171 miles E. by S. from Atlanta, 132 miles by railroad N.N.W. of Savannah, and 137 miles W.N.W. of Charleston. It is the W. terminus of the South Carolina Railroad, and is connected with Savannah by a branch of the Georgia Central Railroad. The Port Royal Railroad extends from this city southeastward 112 miles to Port Royal in South Carolina. Augusta is also the S.W. terminus of the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, and is the head of steamboat navigation on the river. The city has 7 rail roads and 9 railroad connections. It is the third city of the state in population and wealth. The streets are wide, straight, cross one another at right angles, and are lighted with gas and electricity. Three bridges over the river connect Augusta with Hamburg, S.C. It is the seat of the Medical College of Georgia, which was founded in 1832 and has 12 professors. Among the prominent public buildings are the city hall, the Richmond Academy, the masonic hall, the medical college, and the orphan asylum. Augusta contains 33 churches, 3 hospitals, 2 convents, several banks, employing a capital of $2,600,000, a high school connected with a system of graded public schools, and newspaper offices issuing 3 daily and 5 weekly papers. The machine shops of the Georgia Railroad are located here, besides which there are several iron-foundries and machine-shops, glass-works, planing-mills, flour-mills, cotton-mills, a brewery, rope-factory, tobacco-factory, &c. The prosperity of Augusta has been promoted by the construction of a canal 9 miles long, which affords immense water-power for manufacturing purposes. Three signers of the Declaration of Independence-Hall, Walton, and Guinnett—are buried in this city. Pop. in 1860, 12,493; in 1870, 15,389; in 1880, 21,891; in 1890, 33,400.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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