A Historical Timeline of Augusta

A Historical Timeline of Augusta. . , -1883 , Lucy Craft Laney establishes Haines Institute at Christ Presbyterian Church on Telfair and 11th Streets. The school receives a charter in 1886., -1884 , Richard R. Wright and famed evangelist Reverend Charles T. Walker (1858-1921) begin publishing the Augusta Sentinel newspaper on Campbell Street (9th) Street., -1885 , George Dwelle assumes the pastorate of Springfield Baptist Church. Reverend Charles T. Walker founds Tabernacle (originally Beulah) Baptist Church on Ellis Street., -1886 , Augusta attorney Judson W. Lyons, a graduate of Howard University, begins his law practice. Amanda America Dickson, regarded as the wealthiest African American woman in the South, purchases a home at 448 Telfair Street. She dies in 1893., -1888 , William Jefferson White convenes the Union Brotherhood of Georgia. John Wesley Gilbert becomes the first African American faculty member at Paine College. John Henry and Julia Dent begin Dent's Undertaking Establishment. Famed orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass visits Augusta., -1889 , Dr. George N. Stoney, a graduate of Howard University Medical School, begins practice in Augusta. He is the most influential African American doctor in Augusta at that time., -1892 , Walker Baptist Institute, founded in 1888 in Waynesboro, Georgia, moves to Augusta.