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The Augusta Canal was devised to harness the power of the fall line of the Savannah River for mills and to provide drinking water for Augusta, Georgia.

The brain-child of lawyer Henry Cumming, it was surveyed and designed by J. Edgar Thomson who was over-seeing the completion of the Georgia Railroad. It was chartered in 1845 and completed in 1847.

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History of the canal

Canals in the United States | Augusta, Georgia

 

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