To introduce our next speaker, i will like to bring and the editor of our journal, wendy swanson. Wendy swanson i am very honored to stand at this pulpit and very honored to be introducing our next speaker, Edna Greene Medford who many of you know. She is a very treasured friend of the Lincoln Group and one of our members. She always provides us with wellcrafted, meaningful remarks. She is an author, much published. The chair of the History Department at howard and coauthor of the publication the emancipation proclamation review. And editor of the price of freedom series, slavery and the civil war. We also have if you have not seen the series by Southern Illinois university press, she is the author of lincoln and emancipation. If you do not know the series, you should become acquainted with it. A series of articles, publications, small books really good Stocking Stuffers about lincoln, a variety of topics. Let me read you a little review from this publication. This is by john martz lac
The canal was his main purpose was hydropower. A secondary use there were long long barges. Well, they had to shoot the rabbits. They could a lot in a nice smooth ride. As the civil war began, the need for gunpowder was foremost importance. And colonel George Washington rings was higher to look for spot to build the gunpowder works pretty he scoured and road on trains throughout the south scouting locations and chose augusta. He has several things he was looking for. One was a source of water and one was a source of power a he needed Skilled Workforce which augusta had because we began manufacturing. We were very secure behind the fighting lines at the time. The augusta how to works with a large complex of buildings 28 or more that were built more or less in a year. One of the interesting things about the works is that were separate buildings and there was a reason for that because if you had an explosion of one, you wanted abetween one building and the other so they were not all blow
They asked that the chimney remain as a war memorial. The bricks were cleaned and stayed in the rest of the building was torn down. The Augusta Canal was deepened and widened to allow for more water power. Those bricks were built back into other plants. After the expansion, the factories that were built are the same ones that when you see on our boat ride. This mill was built in 1877. You have sibling mills built in the early 1880s. With industry moving to any area, today as well as yesterday, you are creating a l ot of jobs for people. You are creating better ways to make money, more stable careers for people. You have people moving to town. Anytime there is economic growth, people cannot look to the city, especially a city in the south. People can look to the city. The building of the augusta factory, the first the big text title mill really gave augusta a big economic boost. It was a fivestory building with lots of looms and the opportunity for lots of workers. It was seen as a gate
Monday night at 8 00 eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Welcome to augusta on American History tvp or with health from our Comcast Cable partners, we will explore the history of georgias secondlargest city, situated on the georgia South Carolina border. Home to the u. S. Army known around the world for his golf tournament. Coming up, visit the boyhood home of president woodrow wilson. When wilson was elected for his second term, it was all about staying out of the war. This harkens back to augusta doing civil war. He knew what civil war meant. He knew it would mean death for many young men. Later, learn about james brown. James brown i was raised in georgia born intel orion a born in carolina he grew up in a gusto. That is why he made the beautiful song. He had a good heart for both. We begin the hour with a visit to the Augusta Canal and how it transformed the city into an Industrial Center in the civil war
Manmade waterway and it comes from the Savannah River, our main river here and troughs in town about 7. 5 miles. Here, the son of the first mayor of augusta was in massachusetts and saw the canal. Augustas economics came to a standstill. Hes aware to do something and thought we could do that here. We can build a canal and pull that Savannah River and bring into town of high so it can fall. The canal was his main purpose was hydropower. A secondary use there were long barges. Well, they had to shoot the rapids. As the river dropped a very dangerous down the river. They were very pleased when it was built. They could a lot in a nice smooth ride. As the civil war began, the need for gunpowder was foremost importance. And colonel George Washington raines was higher to look for spot to build the gunpowder works pretty he scoured and road on trains throughout the south scouting locations and chose augusta. He has several things he was looking for. One was a source of water and one was a sour