Augusta, GA news and local guide

During the Revolution, the Siege of Augusta won the town back from the British. Augusta was Georgia's capital from 1785 until 1795, when the government moved to Louisville, and the General Assembly met in a two-story State House at Elbert and Bay streets. In Augusta on January 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the Constitution, and in 1789 the Assembly adopted a new state constitution creating the two-house legislature. After the cotton gin made short-staple cotton profitable, Augusta grew fast as a market town for the Piedmont cotton belt. The plantations were worked by enslaved people, hundreds of thousands of whom were brought to the Deep South in the domestic slave trade, many from the Lowcountry, where Gullah culture had developed. In the Civil War Augusta was home to war industries, including the main works of the vast Confederate Powderworks, and after the war it built a booming textile industry. Sources Wikipedia: Augusta, Georgia