Augusta
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- Names
Augusta
Fort Augusta
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located in E Georgia on Savannah river; saw much fighting in Revolutionary War; Georgia ratified US Constitution here 1788; site of largest Confederate gunpowder factory in Civil War, the chimney of which still stands as a war memorial.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of World History (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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