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| Title: | Railroad Bridge over the Savannah (Augusta, GA) | |||
| Creator: | Unknown | |||
| Subject: | Augusta (GA) Bridges History (Augusta, GA) |
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| Description: | This bridge was originally built in 1853 to bring the South Carolina Railroad across the Savannah River. Until then, cargo bound to or from the port of Charleston, South Carolina had to be unloaded and carried across the river by ferry or footbridge to the other side of the river and loaded back onto trains to complete the journey, thus providing steady employment for stevedores and dray operators in Augusta, Georgia and Hamburg, South Carolina. It was still another 5 years before the tracks of the South Carolina Rail Road connected to the rails of the Georgia Railroad. This bridge was washed out by the 1908 flood and subsequently replaced by the current steel bridge. Sources used: Confederate City Augusta, Georgia 1860-1865 by Florence Fleming Corley. Augusta Chronicle Archives (1853 microfilm) (1908-9 online) 11.7 X 7.8 cm B&W copy |
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| Publisher: | Unknown | |||
| Contributor: | Augusta University, Reese Library | |||
| Date: | CA 1870s though could be as early as 1853 or as late as 1908 | |||
| Type: | Image; Still Image | |||
| Format: | B&W Copy. Tiff document size is 4.9 MB |
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| Identifier: | rL00069 | |||
| Source: | Augusta University Collection | |||
| Language: | English | |||
| Relation is Based On: | Not Applicable | |||
| Coverage: | Geographical: North and South America, United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta North and South America, United States, South Carolina, Aiken County, Hamburg Temporal: CA 1870s |
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| Rights: | Augusta University Contact Reese Library Special Collections (archives@augusta.edu) for rights information | |||
