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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPKA_de-l-aigle-brick-yard_Augusta-GA.html
In 1808, Nicholas de L' Aigle, a Frenchrefugee, established brick yards 1/4 milesouth which furnished Augusta with buildingbrick for 75 years. River clay was "pugged"to the right constency in a cylindrical vat by a stone turned with mule-power and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPK9_de-l-aigle-brick-yards_Augusta-GA.html
In 1808, Nicholas de L Aigle, a Frenchrefugee established brick yards 1/4 milesouth which furnished Augusta withbuilding bricks for 75 years. River claywas "pugged" to the right consisteneyin a cylindrical vat by a stone turned with mule-power, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOXS_lucy-craft-laney_Augusta-GA.html
A leading educator of the nineteenth century, Lucy Craft Laney was born into a free African-American household in Macon, Georgia. In 1873 she was part of Atlanta University's first graduating class. After teaching in Macon, Milledgeville, and Sava…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOU3_pierce-memorial-methodist-church_Augusta-GA.html
One of the early Methodist Churches in this section, Pierce Memorial was first called Rocks Church, then Pierce Chapel for Bishop George F. Pierce, leading Georgia Methodist. The first building was erected across the road by slave labor soon after…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOSM_ware-high-school_Augusta-GA.html
Near this site stood Ware High School, which was the first public high school for African-Americans in Georgia and one of only five in the south while it was in operation. Founded in 1880, it was named for Edmund Asa Ware, Freedman`s Bureau Office…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOJ9_the-sisters-of-saint-joseph-in-augusta_Augusta-GA.html
Members of the seventeenth-century French Order of Saint Joseph of Carondelet were first invited to Georgia at the end of the Civil War to teach and staff an orphanage in Savannah. Working with the children of African Americans, the Sisters of St.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOH0_john-mcclinton-tutt_Augusta-GA.html
For over six decades, John Tutt educated Augusta's youth at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute and Lucy Craft Laney High School. After graduating from Lincoln University in 1905, Tutt returned to Augusta to teach Mathematics. Coach Tutt's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMODL_bellevue_Augusta-GA.html
Home of Freeman Walker, outstanding citizen of early Georgia. Born in Virginia in 1780, he came to Richmond County in his youth and studied law. Freeman Walker, in 1826, deeded 70 acres of land to the United States Government to be used as an arse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO92_the-augusta-canal_Augusta-GA.html
Until the Enterprise Mill was builtAugustans were not sure that the 1875enlargement of the canal had workedto attract industry.The 1848 granite block building at thecanal end of this complex is a formerflour mill and the only remainingindustrial s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO7N_home-of-richard-henry-wilde_Augusta-GA.html
Richard Henry Wilde, one of Georgia`s most gifted sons - poet, scholar. lawyer, statesman. lived in this house from 1825 to 1842. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Spet. 24, 1789, he moved to Augusta with his parents in 1802. He was listed as a merchant an…
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