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Augusta’s story, con’td. COMMUNITY now one of the nine colleges at Augusta University. In the mid-1840s, the community built a canal for hydro-mechanical power and early industry emerged. Having this source of waterpower resulted in the construction of the Confederate powder works. Today only the chimney remains as a stark Civil War reminder. During the war Augusta was a major center for manufacturing and medical care. Future President of the United States Woodrow Wilson learned about war firsthand when his father’s First Presbyterian Church became a hospital after the Battle of Chickamauga. Today his boyhood home is a historic site telling that story. For Augusta’s African American community the end of the war brought emancipation and citizenship. Churches, schools - including Lucy Laney’s Haines Institute and Paine College – as well 56 | The Move2 • Greater Augusta as along with businesses and cultural institutions emerged in the African American community. In Springfield Baptist Church, one of the two oldest independent black churches in the country, both the Georgia Equal Rights Association and the school now known as Morehouse College began. After the war, Augusta became a “New South” city. Enlarging the canal increased its horsepower and large, architecturally significant textile mills surrounded by mill neighborhoods rose along its banks. Sibley and King Mills have national Historic Landmark status. The restored Enterprise Mill houses an interpretive center that tells the story of the mills and offers Petersburg boat rides on the canal, now a National Heritage Corridor. In 1888 Augusta held a national exposition that triggered the winter tourism industry. For decades the wealthy of the North spent their winter months enjoying Augusta’s milder climate in resort hotels or in fine homes they built on the Hill in Summerville. In the early twentieth century, growth and modernization continued with the building of the first skyscrapers, still part of Augusta’s skyline. Like other cities, Augusta had a roaring side in the 1920s and then suffered through the Depression in the 1930s. The bright spot of that decade was the establishment of the Augusta National Golf Club and the beginning of the annual Masters Golf
Tournament. Augusta has always had a connection with the military-Fort Augusta, the US Arsenal, Camp MacKenzie in the Spanish-American War, Camp Hancock in World War I, and Camp Gordon in World War II which became Fort Gordon in the 1950s. Now home to the US Army Signal School and Cyber Command, Fort Gordon remains an integral part of Augusta’s past, present, and future. In addition to its continued relationship with the military postwar, Augusta expanded its economy by diversifying its manufacturing and reviving its tourist industry. Dams built up the Savannah River and Savannah River Site across the river added to the boom. Rapid suburbanization spread throughout the area, necessitating the current revitalization of the city’s core. Today, Augusta is a city that retains strong ties to its long and illustrious past while continuing to build and evolve. Welcome. For more information on the history of Augusta, visit the Augusta History Museum on 6th St. COMMUNITY We fit batteries and watch bands WATCHES • CLOCKS SALES & SERVICES 212 8TH STREET 706-722-2932 www.theMove2.com | 57
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Page 19 and 20: HIGHLAND MILLWORKS Antique Flooring
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Page 39 and 40: Quality Time With Your Kids by Rick
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Page 43 and 44: Pleased to meet you! by Stuart Rayb
Page 45 and 46: The Color Run 2015, photo courtesy
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Page 59 and 60: Arts & Culture by Matt Porter, Arts
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Page 63 and 64: Only in Augusta By Steven Uhles A u
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Page 67 and 68: Only in Augusta, con’td. Paul Pea
Page 69 and 70: community. The IDGC features three
Page 71 and 72: Proudly serving the CSRA since 1952
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Page 77 and 78: FISHING By Jay Jacobs A s a native
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Page 83 and 84: Telephone: AT&T: Home (800) 288-202
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