Augusta

Augusta, the third city of Georgia, U.S., is situated on the Savannah River, 231 miles from its mouth, but only 132 miles from Savannah by rail. It is the head of steamboat navigation on the river, which is here spanned by three bridges, connecting the town with Hamburg, S.C., and which is crossed by a stone dam, 1720 feet in length, from which a canal, 8 miles long and 150 feet wide, supplies water both for domestic use and for the mills. These latter are numerous, about 4,000,000 being invested in cotton factories, and 3,000,000 in other manufacturing enterprises. Augusta is the seat of the Medical College of Georgia (1832), and contains several other handsome public buildings, the city being generally well and regularly built. Pop. (1860) 12,493; (1880) 21,891; (1890) 33,300.