1736 Magazine - Fall 2018
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Todd Glover, North Augusta City Administrator<br />
PHOTO BY MICHAEL HOLAHAN<br />
TWO CITIES,<br />
ONE DOWNTOWN<br />
Augusta, North Augusta city centers can prosper together<br />
By Todd Glover<br />
Since the founding of our city in 1906,<br />
North Augusta has been a bedroom<br />
community of Augusta. We are not<br />
only tied geographically but also economically.<br />
Rarely do you find municipalities<br />
so close in proximity; our lines literally<br />
touch.<br />
With Augusta being the older city, it already had<br />
an established commercial downtown when North<br />
Augusta began. The proximity of Augusta’s downtown<br />
meant that Broad Street also served as a de<br />
facto downtown for North Augusta.<br />
As North Augusta developed early on as a resort<br />
town, a bustling commercial center on the river<br />
began to develop here. As Georgia was a dry state at<br />
the time, the North Augusta Dispensary, a government<br />
operated liquor store, gave reason for many<br />
Augustans to cross the river. A commercial center on<br />
the North Augusta side soon built up, but this was<br />
prior to the dams on the Savannah River, and flood-<br />
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