Augusta Canal
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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. The canal is part of the Historic Augusta Canal and Industrial District, named a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
