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By Mike Stroud, 2008

Augusta Cotton Exchange

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta — Augusta Cotton Exchange —

Organized 1872 Constructed 1886 Architect - Enoch William Brown Contractor - William Henry Goodrich Closed 1964 Entered in National Register of Historic Places 1978 — — Map (db m114290) HM

2 ► Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta — Cotton —

Although was cultivated an in small quantities in the South during the eighteenth century, it was not considered a profitable crop because of the difficulty of separating the seed from the fiber. In 1793, Eli Whitney, a young man from . . . — — Map (db m114289) HM