The story so far
Augusta, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Augusta yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 200,549 to 206,607 (+3%).
History · Augusta
51 landmarks tell Augusta’s story
The public archives hold no old photos of Augusta yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
0old photos & papers
51historic places
What stands out about Augusta’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
A National Historic Landmark51 places on the National Register, 6 of them National Historic Landmarks. #6 in GA.A historic districtSummerville Historic District protects 1,250 historic buildings.Lost villages10 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Augusta, and 139 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Augusta are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · On the National Register
51 listings protect 5,866 historic buildings
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. 6 are National Historic Landmarks, the highest tier.
places listed
51
National Historic Landmarks
6
Augusta Canal Industrial District
historic buildings protected
5,866
each building in a district counts
first listed
1969
Harris-Pearson-Walker House
in Georgia
#6
by listings
BuildingsDistricts★ landmark
Architectural styles listings
Greek Revival9
Federal8
Italianate7
Colonial Revival6
Classical Revival4
Romanesque4
★ LandmarkAugusta Canal Industrial DistrictDistrict
★ LandmarkCollege HillBuilt 1795
★ LandmarkStephen Vincent Benet HouseFederal
★ LandmarkOld Medical College BuildingGreek Revival
★ LandmarkMeadow GardenSand Hills Cottage
★ LandmarkWoodrow Wilson Boyhood HomeClassical Revival
Harris-Pearson-Walker HouseAmerican Georgian
Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchRomanesque
All 51 listings
First Baptist Church of AugustaBuilding · listed 1972Gertrude Herbert Art InstituteBuilding · listed 1973Academy of Richmond CountyBuilding · listed 1973Brahe HouseBuilding · listed 1973St. Paul's Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1973Augusta Cotton Exchange BuildingBuilding · listed 1978Old Richmond County CourthouseBuilding · listed 1978Lamar BuildingBuilding · listed 1979Augusta National Golf Club/FruitlandsDistrict · listed 1979Gould-Weed HouseBuilding · listed 1979Reid-Jones-Carpenter HouseBuilding · listed 1979Broad Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Summerville Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Springfield Baptist ChurchBuilding · listed 1982Engine Company Number OneBuilding · listed 1988Seclusaval and Windsor SpringDistrict · listed 1988Springfield Baptist Church (Boundary Increase)Building · listed 1990Joseph Darling HouseBuilding · listed 1991Tubman High SchoolBuilding · listed 1994Joseph Rucker Lamar Boyhood HomeBuilding · listed 1996Shiloh OrphanageBuilding · listed 1996First Presbyterian Church of AugustaBuilding · listed 1997Church of the Most Holy TrinityBuilding · listed 1997Sands Hill Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1997Liberty Methodist ChurchBuilding · listed 1997United States Post Office and CourthouseBuilding · listed 2000Academy of Richmond County-1926 CampusDistrict · listed 2004Augusta Downtown Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2004Bath Presbyterian Church and CemeteryBuilding · listed 2004Dr. Asbury and Martha Hull HouseBuilding · listed 2018FitzSimons-Hampton HouseBuilding · listed 1976Pinched Gut Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Greene Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Laney-Walker North Historic District (Additional Documentation)District · listed 1985Harrisburg-West End Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1990Bethlehem Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1997Cauley-Wheeler Memorial BuildingBuilding · listed 2008Paine College Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2012Weiss-Steinburg-Bush HouseBuilding · listed 2019Woodlawn Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2019Neuropsychiatric Infirmary – Building 76Building · listed 2020Neuropsychiatric Tuberculosis Ward-Building 7Building · listed 2020Augusta Warehouse and Compress CompanyDistrict · listed 2024
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Augusta’s post office has been open since 1793. 10 other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Augusta
Belair
Richmond Bath
Mc Been
Bath
Mc Bean Depot
Allen
Gracewood
Adam
Richmond
17901910today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AdamsAdventureApple ValleyAragon ParkAvondaleBarton VillageBathBayvaleBel Air HeightsBelairBellemeadBerckman HillsBerckman VillasBeverly HeightsBonairBridgeportBristol WoodBrookfield WestBrynwoodBurch GrantButler EstatesButler ManorCarmell Mobile Home ParkCarriage Court
Gone or out of use
Augusta ArsenalmilitaryAugusta Orphan AsylumbuildingAvington SchoolschoolBayvale SchoolschoolBerlin SchoolschoolBethany ChapelchurchBethesda ChurchchurchBroad Oaks SchoolschoolBurch MilllocaleBynes Chapel SchoolschoolCamp HancocklocaleCampbellton FerrycrossingCentral Baptist ChapelchurchChristian Brothers SchoolschoolChurch of the NazarenechurchCovenant SchoolschoolFort CornwallislocaleFree Holiness Churchchurch
43family graveyards and cemeteries inside Augusta
Atkins - WinterBathBrandonBurchBurchBurtonCarmichaelCedar GroveChavousClantonCosnahanCrockettDarlingDoyleFulcherFulcherGracewoodHillcrest Memorial ParkInglettJohnsonKillebrewLeitnerMagnoliaMorganMount Olive Memorial GardensMount PleasantNewmenRachelsRoberSaxonSchleySouth ViewSteadmanSummervilleTarverTinleyTwiggsUnionWalkerWalker Memorial ParkWest ViewWestover Memorial ParkWorld War Two German Prisoner of War
See all 43
Atkins - Winter Cemetery · Bath Cemetery · Brandon Cemetery · Burch Cemetery · Burch Cemetery · Burton Cemetery · Carmichael Cemetery · Cedar Grove Cemetery · Chavous Cemetery · Clanton Cemetery · Cosnahan Cemetery · Crockett Cemetery · Darling Cemetery · Doyle Cemetery · Fulcher Cemetery · Fulcher Cemetery · Gracewood Cemetery · Hillcrest Memorial Park · Inglett Cemetery · Johnson Cemetery · Killebrew Cemetery · Leitner Cemetery · Magnolia Cemetery · Morgan Cemetery · Mount Olive Memorial Gardens Cemetery · Mount Pleasant Cemetery · Newmen Cemetery · Rachels Cemetery · Rober Cemetery · Saxon Cemetery · Schley Cemetery · South View Cemetery · Steadman Cemetery · Summerville Cemetery · Tarver Cemetery · Tinley Cemetery · Twiggs Cemetery · Union Cemetery · Walker Cemetery · Walker Memorial Park · West View Cemetery · Westover Memorial Park · World War Two German Prisoner of War Cemetery
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Augusta, 1793 to 2008
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 18th century
- 1793Post officeThe Augusta post office opens
- 1795BuiltCollege Hill is built
- 19th century
- 1802
BuiltAcademy of Richmond County is built - 1818
BuiltGertrude Herbert Art Institute is built - 1832Post officeThe Belair post office opens
- 1832Post officeThe Richmond Bath post office opens
- 1836Post officeThe Richmond Bath post office closes
- 20th century
- 1918
BuiltLamar Building is built - 1932Post officeThe Belair post office closes
- 1971LandmarkCollege Hill named a National Historic Landmark
- 1971LandmarkStephen Vincent Benet House named a National Historic Landmark
- 1977LandmarkAugusta Canal Industrial District named a National Historic Landmark
- 1981LandmarkMeadow Garden named a National Historic Landmark
- 1996LandmarkOld Medical College Building named a National Historic Landmark
- 21st century
- 2008LandmarkWoodrow Wilson Boyhood Home named a National Historic Landmark
By decade
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From the National Register of Historic Places (51), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.