1540
Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto surveys the area near present-day Augusta. His entourage includes enslaved Africans.
1732-1735
General James Edward Oglethorpe and other well-off Englishmen who made up the Georgia Trustees, establish . . . — — Map (db m271082) HM
1818
The Georgia Legislature adopts measures that restrict African American property ownership and that require free persons of color to
register annually and pay a tax when moving into the state. The registry includes many residents of . . . — — Map (db m271413) HM
"I take my pen in hand to give you a sketch of the proceedings of the 1st day of January (The Freedmen's 4th of July) in the City of Augusta, we met a Springfield Church, it being the largest colored church in the city." -Robert Kent, . . . — — Map (db m271414) HM
1867
Reverend William Jefferson White and Richard Coulter establish Augusta Baptist Institute, later Atlanta's Morehouse College, at Springfield Baptist Church.
Two years later, the school relocates to Harmony Baptist near the intersection of . . . — — Map (db m271421) HM
-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) . . . — — Map (db m272755) HM
